CW-STST-0117

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR ARTHUR BROOKE FAULKNER,
WHO DIED AT EVINGTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, THE 23 RD MAY 1845,
YOUNGEST SON OF HUGH FAULKNER ESQ. OF CASTLETOWN IN THIS PARISH,
BY FLORENCE COLE DAUGHTER OF THE REV d HENRY COLE,
BROTHER OF THE FIRST EARL OF ENNISKILLEN .
MARRIED ANN, DAUGHTER OF DONALD M LEOD ESQ r OF LEWIS.

SOUND LEARNING, REFINED WIT, CLASSIC ELEGANCE, LOVE OF FREEDOM, AND BENEVOLENCE OF SPIRIT,
CHARACTERISED HIS PUBLISHED SENTIMENTS AND PUBLIC CONDUCT.

THAT GENTLE SIMPLICITY AND AMIABLE MODESTY WHICH ACCOMPANIED HIS VIRTUES
AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ENDEARED HIM TO ALL IN PRIVATE LIFE
AND ADORNED THOSE FINE ARTS IN WHICH HE EXCELLED.

HE LOVED HIS FATHERLAND WITH FILIAL AFFECTION
AND WAS THE ELEQUUENT AND POWERFUL ADVOCATE OF ITS RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.

THE CHARM OF HIS FRANK AND POLISHED MANNERS BROUGHT
HIM INTO INTIMATE CONNECTION WITH PRINCES AND
EMINENT MEN OF HIS TIME.

THE PURITY, PIETY, AND HUMANITY OF THE CHRISTIAN
ADORNED HIS LIFE AND CONSECRATES HIS MEMORY.

"THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HER TO WHOM HIS MEMORY IS HALLOWED
BY BOUNDLESS AND UNCEASING DEVOTION AND WHOSE UNION OF 85 YEARS
APPEARED AS THE HAPPY VISION OF A LENGTHENED BRIDAL DAY"