Tomb inscription · 1830
Lady Harriet Elizabeth Rumbold
- Date
- 8 September 1830
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2258
- Inscription
- Sacred to the memory of the Honorable Harriet Elizabeth Rumbold, the beloved wife of Sir William Rumbold, Bart., who departed this life September 8th 1830 in her fortieth year, leaving a husband and six children to mourn for the loss of an angelic being, in whom all those qualities which inspire the purest affection and admiration were united with every feminine virtue.
- Notes
- Sir W. Rumbold, third Baronet, was grandson of Thomas Rumbold, Governor of Madras 1778-80. He was a partner in the celebrated firm of Rumbold and Palmer and died at Hyderabad, August 24th, 1833. His wife was second daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Boothby, Lord Raincliffe, and a ward of the first Marquess of Hastings. They were married July 1809. This tablet is near the lectern. (See No. 999.)