Wortley Montagu, Edward

In Latin: This monument was erected to Edward Wortley Montagu, who was shipwrecked while returning to Britain from the East Indies in 1777 in his 27th year, by John English Dolben, heir to the aforementioned Edward's library, and his joint residuary legatee, in memory of a friendship which began at the neighbouring royal school [Westminster School], continued without interruption at Oxford, was not diminished though half the world lay between, was hardly broken even by death, and which, if it pleases God, shall be renewed in Heaven. [Translation courtesy of Westminster Abbey website.]