LD-SPNF-0274

Record Date: 
29 March 2016
Graveyard: 
Newtown Forbes
Exact wording of epitaph: 

                              ‘SPARE NOUGHT’

                                           SACRED
                            TO THE MEMORY OF
               LIEUT. GENERAL  JAMES  HAY
                      A COMPANION OF THE BATH

        AND COLONEL OF THE 79TH HIGHLANDERS
AN OLD AND DISTINGUISHED PENINSULAR OFFICER
           ONE OF THE HEROES OF WATERLOO
       A BRAVE SOLDIER AND A SINCERE FRIEND
                 HE WAS SECOND SON OF THE LATE
         JOHN HAY ESQ. OF BRACO , BANFFSHIRE

         AND DIED AT K ELBURNE IN THIS COUNTY
  THE 25TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1854, AGED 74 YEARS.

  HIS REMAINS ARE INTERED IN THE OLD CHURCHYARD
                 OF CLONGISH IN THIS PARISH
               HE WAS BELOVED BY ALL CLASSES
               AND HIS LOSS IS DEEPY MOURNED.

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING WIDOW
                 AS A SMALL TOKEN OF RESPECT
           AND AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE.

Memorial Type: 
Wall or mural tablet
Grave location
County: 
Longford
Latitude: 
53.765468990015
Longitude: 
-7.8368702500086
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Lieut. General
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Hay
Date of death - day: 
25
Date of death - month: 
February
Date of death - year: 
1854
Age: 
74
Address: 
Kilburne Longford
Notes: 

He was a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo .