all the descendants of a common ancestor.
Blue -Eyed Ann
When the rough North forgets to howl,
And Ocean's billows cease to roll;
When Libyan sands are bound in frost,
And cold to Nova Zembla's lost!
When heavenly bodies cease to move,
My blue-eyed Ann I'll cease to love.
No more shall flowers the meads adorn;
Nor sweetness deck the rosy thorn;
Nor swelling buds proclaim THE SRING;
Nor parching heats the dogstar bring;
Nor laughing lilies paint the grove,
When blue-eyed Ann I cease to love.
No more shall joy in hope be found;
Nor pleasures dance their frolic round;
Nor Love's light god inhabit earth;
Nor beauty give to passion birth;
Nor heat to summer sunshine cleave,
When blue-eyed Nanny I deceive.
When rolling seasons cease to change,
Inconstancy forgets to range;
When lavish May no more shall bloom,
Nor gardens yield a rich perfume;
When Nature from her sphere shall start,
I'll tear my Nanny from my heart.
Tobias George Smollett
1721 - 1771
The widow of the noted Scottish writer Tobias Smollett, Nancy Smollett (born Anne Lascelles) was a wealthy Jamaican heiress of 26 when she married the adventurous Royal Navy surgeon/ London society physician-turned-author.
Said to be an attractive and accomplished "Creole" lady, she traveled England, Scotland, France and Italy with her husband.
After his death in Livorno in 1771 at the age of 50, she continued to reside here, comforted by the companionship of their dear friends, the Renners. As close in death as they were in life, the couples are buried next to each other.
Mrs. Smollett, who survived her husband by twenty years, died at the age of 70.
Anne Lascelles
1721 - 1791
The Lascelles family, now earls of Harewood, had interests in the Caribbean from 1648 until 1975, when the family sold its last plantation.
The fullest and most interesting account of their activities is Simon Smith's study Slavery, family and gentry capitalism in the British Atlantic: the world of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Cambridge Studies in Economic History, Cambridge University press 2006)
Orpheus with his flute
Mathew Locke
1621- 1677
Lady Jane Cavendish
1621-1669
She was daughter of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle,
and his first wife, Elizabeth Basset Howard
After the deuty of a Verse,
Giue leaue now to rehearse;
A Pastorall; then if but giue
Your smile, I sweare, I liue,
In happiness; ffor if this may
Your fauour haue, ‘twill ne’re decay
Now let my language speake, & say
If you be pleas’d, I haue my pay.
Psyche, A Tragedy
Matthew Locke
1621 - 1677
Lady Jane Cheyne
On the North side of the Nave is the memorial to Lady Jane Cheyne (1669), daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, and a great benefactor to this Church and the village of Chelsea.
The memorial is the work of the Italian artist Bernini's studio
Suite No.5 in G minor - 3. Ayre
Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet
¡La claridad de nuestras intenciones,
la profundidad de nuestros pensamientos,
la bondad de nuestros actos!
¡Tenemos que dudar incluso de nuestra propia verdad!
Ilse Aichinger
1921 - 2016
Frank Cavendish Lascelles
1841-1920
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