Location
On the southern wall of St. Thomas's Chapel (see Cathedral Plan).
 

Memorial
Memorial to George Long
Inscription
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE LONG SON OF
WALTER LONG OF PRESHAW
HOUSE, HANTS. BORN DECR.
23 1823 DIED JUNE 17 1909
IN TE DOMINE SPERAVE


 
Further Information
George Long was the son of Walter and Lady Mary Long of Preshaw House near Warnford in Hampshire. He was a banker in the firm Grant Gillman & Long at 60 High Street. He was a Justice of the Peace, an officer in the Hampshire Yeomanry, the organiser of Portsmouth's first soup kitchen, an original member of the school board and honorary secretary to the School of Science and Art.
 
One of the windows of the cathedral is also dedicated to him.
 

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