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The Church of St. Andrew, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
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This is our interpretation of the inscription on this memorial and therefore might not be accurate.
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONOURABLE
SAMUEL BARRINGTON,
ADMIRAL OF THE WHIE & GENERAL OF MARINE
BORN FEBY 15TH 1730 DIED AUGT. 16TH 1800.
HERE RESTS THE HERO WHO IN GLORY'S PAGE
WROTE HIS FAIR DEEDS FOR MORE THAN HALF AN AGE
HERE RESTS THE PATRIOT WHO FOR ENGLAND'S GOOD
EACH TOIL ENCOUNTER'D, AND EACH CLIME WITHSTOOD
HERE RESTS THE CHRISTIAN:  HI, THE LOFTIER CLA...
TO SEIZE THE CONQUEST, YET RENOUNCE THE FAME
HE WHEN HIS ARM sT. LUCIA'S TROPHIES BOASTS.
ASCRIBES THE GLORY TO THE LORD OF HOSTS.
AND WHEN THE HARDER TASK REMAIN'D BEHIND,
THE PASSIVE COURAGE AND THE WILL RESIGN'D,
PATIENT, THE VETERAN VICTOR YIELDS HIS BREATH,
SECURE IN HIM, WHO CONQUER'D SIN AND DEATH.
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