Grace, Countess of Granville and Viscountess Carteret was the youngest daughter of John, 1st Earl of Bath by Jane, daughter of Sir Peter Wyche. She married Sir George Carteret, later Baron Carteret of Haynes (d.1695). She died on 18th October 1744 aged 77 and was buried in the vault of General Monk in the north aisle of in the Abbey.
Philip Carteret
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Grace's second son Philip was born on 6th November 1692 at Haynes. He died on 19th March 1711 while attending Westminster School. A monument, by Burgundian sculptor Chevalier Claude David, was set up in the nave near his grave. It is of black and white marble with a seated figure of Time holding a scroll. Behind is a sarcophagus surmounted by a bust of Philip. The Latin inscription can be translated:
The honourable youth Philip Carteret, second son of the Lord George Carteret, Baron of Hawnes, scholar of this College and ripe for university, died March 19 1710, aged 19.
The lines on the scroll were composed by Robert Freind, then Second Master at Westminster School, and can be translated:
Why do the tuneful chorus join in mournful songs, regret thy fate, The fleeting joys of thee and thine, and pleasures of too short a date? Why my too hasty scyth upbraid, and wail the cruel wound it made?
See what a worthless thing is bloom, behold my boy the poor reward, But I, obsequious at thy tomb, will ever stand a watchful guard; In lettered marble show thy name, and tell the world thy matchless fame.
Thy spotless piety in youth, for learning thy untoiled desire; Thy manners strict, and ancient Truth, shall make the age to come admire. The future wondering youth while I relate, fired at thy worth, shall strive to emulate.
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