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2 unusual facts about Thomas Thetcher


Thomas Thetcher

Writer Augustus Hare quotes the inscription in the appendix of his Epitaphs for Country Churchyards (1856).

He or she was very resourceful: I copied it from an inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral, and a military friend then quartered there informed me that a statement once appeared in Fraser's Magazine to the effect that the quatrain commencing "Here sleeps in peace," was written by Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, sometime Bishop of Winchester.


Small beer

Thomas Thetcher's tombstone at Winchester Cathedral features a poem that blames his death on drinking small beer while hot.


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