To the Memory of the Revd. JOHN ELLIS D.D.
35 years Vicar of this Parish,
12 of St. Catherine's, who in Piety & Learning
was an ornament to the Church, in all offices.
of Life an exemplary Pattern of good Works.
He died Octr. 7th 1764 Aged 77, & is interred in
one Vault Wth. his first wife MARGARETTA
& 7 children, his youngest son WILLIAM
Govr. of Patna in Bengall lost his life in ye
bloody Massacre there Octr. 5th. 1763 - another
Son & a Daughter named BRABAZON CATHERINE & his 2d. Wife ELIZABETH
Survived him. The first fo WHom has the melancholy task of thus commemorating
teh Mortality of his Family.
Some background info on the 1763 Patna massacre (http://www.royalark.net/India4/murshid8.htm