Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-02

tlstry is a monument TO James Craggs,
who was secretary Of state when he
died, In 1870, only 80 years old. Pope
composed the epltaph which commom-
crates his virtues
Statesmen. yet friend to truth Of soul
sincere,
IN action faithful. and In honor clearl
Who broke no promise, seryd TO private
end,
who gained no title, and who lost no
friend;
Ennobed by himself by all approval,
Prals'd, wept and honored by The Muse
he lov'd.
Yet when the South Sea bubble burst
and It's books were oyerhauled this
same Craggs "in honor clear was dis
covered to be an arrant rogue, his name
appearing In the subscription lists for
the fictitious sum Of 81 $50 000 the price
of his "infuence." Pope had no desire
TO be buried In the abbey himself, He
knew very well the character OF many
Of the company there, and what epl-
taphs were worth.
So far worse than Crnggs was Thorn
| az Thynn, a BLACKBOARD whose memoir
| fall stands near that OF the sanity
| Wcsleys the founders Of Methodlsm,
| the striking discrepancy between his
| toric fact and poetic fiction displayed in
| his epitaph and ordered Il erased, while
| allowing his monument To remain.
| Thynn was a favorite OF Charles II. He
| was a. rich man, but TO add 10 his
| wealth compelled the child widow OF
! Lord Ogle, heiress TO vast Northum-
! berland estates Of the Pcrces, to marry
! him She was only 10, and fled to Hol-
| land TO escape him, Whereupun he IN
| stltuted law proceedings to get possess
sion Of her property.
one Of her sultOrs, Count John kon-
igsmark, a Swedish nobleman. sent him
a challenge by Captain Vratz. one of
| his followers. Thynn responded by dis
patching six men to France to murder
the pair OF them Their mission failed.
Then the count tried the game Of MUIR
der, with more success As Thynn Was
riding down PAN Mall one sunday even
ing, his coach was stopped by Capt
Vrats and two hired villains, and
Hymns career was terminated by "A
blunderbuss. bas relief on the mon
umcnt depicts the murder and incl
dentally iustihcs the boast subsequent
ly made by Thynn's coachman that he,
too, had his efllgy IN the Abbey,
IL is n singular fact that no painter
Is Inferred IN the Abbey for nO other
reason apparently than that successive
deans had no appreciation VI that form
N art. And It Is one of the many
strange Illustrations Of the irony Of
fate found IN the Abbey that the only
painter who has monument there rs
Tho same SIR Godfrey i5neller who ga
omphatically expressed his aversion Ia
being entomhed within It's walls be-
cause they do bury fools there" Sit
Godfrey himself designated the mouu-
mont for which he left 81 500 and chose
a place for II In Twickcnham church,
but the spot selected was already occu-
pied 10y pupe's tablet tc his father
and "a the poet refused to give way t.
the painter the painters monument
was got rid Of by placing it IN the All
hey With an cpltaph which Pope ac.
knowl edged to he the worst he had ovei
written.
or ecclesiastical dlgnltarlcs and d.
vines there are about four dozen com
memorated In the Abbey and no parti
cilar standard NJ greatness seems Il
have been applied In determining theii
fitness for such an exalted honor Th'
great majority Of them have been con
, nected with the Abbey Among then
, Is Dean Sprat. now chiefly remem
, hered because he refused to allow MI
, toms name to appear IN an enitaph Il
, somebody else IN the Abbey hut dpanl
Of Westminster whether great on little
, nre buried m the Abbey IA mn tier 81
, course. Dean stanley and his wife mr.,
, hurled in Henry Nlrs chapel WV
the dean has an imposing monument
, and hts wife a memorial window. Dear
: Stanley was sanity and lovnhe man
, n great man, too, many might conside
him. hut yet he ala no such work |,
win lasting remembrance az that Nthe
rejected stanley without whose nam
, the history OF Africa can never b
l written.
, GREAT WOMEN NEGLECTED.,
, Apart from actresses, great womel
/ have received the most scaut tecogni
: ton In the Abbey, though memorial
T. have been bestowed ON many OF the Nv.
= thore, Aphra Behn The barber
daughter perhaps has some claim L
fame as the frat woman 10 earn llv
. Ing by her pen IN England, though he
7 i.,3~t tnusnoss was notorious, ana Char
. les N made use " her ~ q epy dufinl
{ the Dutch war By way of contrast,
: h interesting tn note that according h
the inscription ON Mira, Martha Birch
monument she was "chaste, Wise an
prudent" though II Il evident she owe
hhr place among the lmmcrtals not 4
those Commendable virtues, out 20 IN
fact that her second husband was
prehendary ~ the Abbey
on the tablet To Mrs. Katherine 30
> vey. on the south side w the grea
: nave, II rs recorded that her persol
! and understanding would have becom
the highest rank In life, ana her viva
city would have recommended her Il
tb. host conversation hut LN iuda