Chelsea in the olden & present times / by George Bryan.

  • Bryan, George.
Date:
1869
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chelsea in the olden & present times / by George Bryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an excellent Greek scholar, in which laneuage he wrote his own life. The late Rev. Mr. La Trobe had the manuscript in his possession some years ago. James Fraser, aged 63, 1808, who made fifty-six voyages between England and Labrador, in the service of the Moravian Missions on that coast. James Hutton, 1795, of whom there is an engraved portrait in mezzotinto, with a trumpet to his ear. This worthy and well- known character was accustomed to pay morning visits to some of the first families in Chelsea; he used likewise to seek out objects that were in distress, and relieved them according to their necessities. The character of Albany, in Miss Burney’s celebrated novel of Cecilia, is said to be meant for his portrait. He died in the 80th year of his age. The Rev. C. J. La Trobe succeeded him as secretary to the brethren. James Gillray, 1799, forty years sexton at thi5 cemetery, father of Gillray the celebrated caricaturist, whose works are so much admired for their spirit and effect. Paetrus Biehler, 1770. A very active Minister among the Moravians, and one of their bishops. He came to England in 1738, was very intimate with Wesley and Whitfield, whom he visited at Oxford, and who were in the same ship with him when he went to America as Minister of the Colony of Georgia. Benjamin La Trobe, 1786, father of the Rev. C. J- La Trobe, a man of distinguished excellence as a preacher, the editor of several religious works, and for a long time superintendent of the congregation in England. He removed many “ absurdities which prevailed in their religious proceedings, and which had subjected the whole community to unmerited scandal. ” Christian Renatus, Count of Zinzendorf, May 28, 1832. There is against the south wall of the chapel a tablet to his memory. He was the only son of the celebrated Count Zinzendorf. Mary Theresa Stonehouse, daughter of Sir John Crisp, Bart., and wife of the Rev. George Stonehouse, 1751. This monument is on the right of the preceding.