LD-SPNF-0269

Record Date: 
29 March 2016
Graveyard: 
Newtown Forbes
Exact wording of epitaph: 

                       ‘THE JUST
                      SHALL LIVE.    HEB.X.38
                         BY FAITH’

                         IN MEMORY
                             OF THE
          REV. WILLIAM  DIGBY A.M.
                  FOR 19 YEARS
           RECTOR OF THIS PARISH

                    THIS TABLET
            HAS BEEN ERECTED BY
THE PARISHIONERS, AND OTHER FRIENDS,
       AS A TOKEN OF LOVE AND ESTEEM
          FOR ONE WHO WAS A FAITHFUL
    MINISTER OF CHRIST, AN AFFECTIONATE
    PASTOR AND ONE WHO FOR MORE THAN
          50 YEARS ‘TESTIFIED THE GOSPEL
                   OF THE GRACE OF GOD’
                     BORN 18TH  MAY 1784.
                    DIED 15TH MARCH 1866

          ‘THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED’
                               PROVBS X.7.

Memorial Type: 
Wall or mural tablet
Grave location
County: 
Longford
Latitude: 
53.765468990015
Longitude: 
-7.8368702500086
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Rev.
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Digby
Date of birth - day: 
18
Date of birth - month: 
May
Date of birth - year: 
1784
Date of death - day: 
15
Date of death - month: 
March
Date of death - year: 
1866
Age: 
81
Address: 
St.Anne's Rectory, Newtownforbes