CO-MORY-0007

Record Date: 
3 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Magourney
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN

MEMORY OF

LIEUT GENERAL HENRY BIRD

DIED JANUARY 16TH 1892

AGED 73 YEARS

ERECTED BY HIS COUSIN

REVD WALTER H MARRIOTT M.A.T.C.D.

I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.

                                                   S. JOHN XI. 25. 

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.910393055556
Longitude: 
-8.7917763888889
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Lieutenant General
Name: 
Henry
Surname: 
Bird
Date of death - day: 
16
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1892
Age: 
73
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Walter H
Surname: 
Marriott
Relationship with first person: 
Cousin
Notes: 

Death notice of Henry Bird in Cork Constitution, 18 Jan. 1892

Here lies interred Henry Bird of the Castle, Carrigadrohid, a retired British Army lieutenant general, who died at his residence on 16 Jan. 1892, aged 73 years

The initials M.A.T.C.D. on the grave memorial (relating to his cousin, Rev. Walter H. Marriott) stand for 'Master of Arts, Trinity College Dublin'