Tomb inscription · 1860
Sir Henry Davison
- Date
- 5 November 1860
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2281
- Inscription
- The Honorable Sir Henry Davison, Knight, sometime H.M.'s Puisne Justice at Madras, then Chief Justice of Bombay and afterwards and until his decease Chief Justice of Madras. He died at Ootacamund on the 5th of November 1860 in the 55th year of his age, deeply and deservedly regretted by a large circle of friends in England and India, who have erected this monument and also a tablet in the church to his memory in token of their affection. His body lies beneath this stone.
- Notes
- Fourth son of Thomas Davison of Scotland, Bride's Lond. arm St. Alban Hall, 23 Oct. 1823, aged 18; Scholar Trinity 1824, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; Barrister L.T., 1834. The dedication of Thackeray's Virginians runs as follows: ‘To Sir Henry Davison, Chief Justice of Madras, this book is inscribed by an affectionate old friend, London, September 7th, 1859.’ Ootacamund twenty-five years earlier was the residence of Macaulay, who lived at Woodcock Hall during the months of July and August 1834. He dilates more than once upon “his cottage buried in laburnums, or something very like them, and geraniums which grow in the open air.” The scenery of the Nilgiris he likened to “the vegetation of Windsor Forest or Blenheim spread over the mountains of Cumberland.”