Gouland, Richard
In memoria eterna. Underneath lieth buried the body of Mr Richard Gouland, M[aster] of Arts and the first keeper of the Library of this Col[lege] to which he hath given a large legacie to be bestowed on some choice bookes. A man truly orthodox, of an undissembled pietie and uprightnesse of a singular candour and fidelitie to his frindes, well skild in the languages, and otherwise very well furnished with the best and choisest learninge, who after a painfull and wearisome pilgrimage in a weake and sickly bodie departed this life to that seate of the blessed the 10th of November 1659.
Church: Westminster Abbey (in Westminster, London).
Profession:
Schoolteacher.
Sex:
Male.
Virtue(s):
Candour*, Famed after death*, Fidelity*, Learning/knowledge*, Orthodoxy*, Piety, Skill*, Unaffectedness*, Uprightness.
Exemplar:
Reminder of death*.
Afterlife:
Known.
Language:
Only English.
Year of death: 1659.
Age at death: not given (classed as: Adult).