Memorial: M5797

Memorial at St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh commemorating the Reverend John Morell Mackenzie d. 1843 in the wreck of the SS ‘Pegasus’

Location

St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland, England

Transcript

'DIED 1843 AGED 36 / TO THE MEMORY OF / THE REV. JOHN MORELL MACKENZIE M.A. / LATE PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM AND CHURCH HISTORY / IN THE GLASGOW THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY / WHO LOST HIS LIFE BY THE WRECK OF / THE STEAM-SHIP PEGASUS / OFF THE GOLDSTONE ROCK / ON THE MORNING OF THE 20TH JULY 1843 / THIS STONE, THE FRAIL MEMORIAL OF WORK WHICH IS IMPERISHABLE, HAS BEEN ERECTED BY / HIS WIDOW. / ENDOWED WITH THE TALENTS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER WHICH HE ASSIDUOUSLY CULTIVATED, POSSESSING STORES OF A VARIED AND VALUABLE / LEARNING TO WHICH HE WAS CONSTANTLY / ADDING AND ADORNED WITH THE GRACES OF A / NATURALLY AMIABLE DISPOSITION AND THE / VIRTUES OF A SINCERE AND DEEP-TURNING PIETY / HE WAS HAPPILY HONOURED AND USEFUL IN LIFE / AND IN DEATH AMID CIRCUMSTANCES OF A PARTICULARLY APPALLING CHARACTER HE AFFORDED A / STRIKING EXAMPLE OF THE POWER OF THAT / RELIGION WHICH HE PROFESSED / TO COMPOSE AND ELEVATE THE MIND IN THE / PROSPECT OF AN IMMINENT ENTRANCE INTO / THE WORLD OF SPIRITS' [side] 'Mark the perfect man and behold / the upright for the end of that man is peace' PS XXXVII 17'

Details

Description: Broken column. Inscription on the plinth.
Type: Monument
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Stone
Vessel: Pegasus

People

Mackenzie, John Morrell
Age: 36
Date of Death: 20/7/1843
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: 'The Times' 25 July 1843. Report by one of the survivors named Baillie. 'I saw Mr M'Kenzie on the quarter-deck praying with several of the passengers on their knees around him. Mr McKenzie seemed calm and collected. All the passengers were praying too, but Mr Mckenzie's voice was distinctly heard above them all.'
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson ©RMG

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters