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13400


Newcastle


Gosforth, Church of St. Nicholas, grave of John Ramsay


Gosforth


NZ26NE


Religious Ritual and Funerary


Grave Marker


Gravestone


Post Medieval


C18


Structure


John Ramsay (1707-1782) aged 75. His gravestone is inscribed with this epitaph: YE POLITICIANS STOP AND PAUSE! A PATRIOT LIETH HERE, WHO LOVED HIS COUNTRY AND ITS LAWS, AND LIBERTY HELD DEAR. TO MATHEMATICKS HE INCLINED, HIS MIND WAS ALWAYS GAY. AN HUSBAND GOOD, AND PARENT KIND, WAS HONEST JOHN RAMSAY.


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681


NZ251681



Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, page 157

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