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GLI STEMMI NEL CIMITERO DEGLI INGLESI A FIRENZE

     

                     

A6I/ A13/ 801/ ANNIE JESSIE (MACKENZIE) SMITH/ SCOTLAND  and A14/ CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH/ ENGLAND
Christopher Webb Smith and his wife, Annie Jessie MacKenzie Smith, who pre-deceased him, share a most beautiful sarcophagus, sculpted by Pietro Bazzanti, mirrored in that for Sophia Tennant (D18) in Sector D, both of which have been cleaned by Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu. Following Webb Smith's Civil Service in Bengal he also visited South Africa, publishing a book with his paintings of its culture and its wild life, now in our library as a gift from a member. In his retirement in Florence he served loyally with the Anglican Holy Trinity Church. Wikipedia adds that 'From 1849 to 1860 Smith worked on a critique of the 300 paintings in Florence's Pitti Gallery. The entire work was lost with the sinking of the steamer Black Prince off the coast of Portugal'.

  
Mackenzie arms with crest sculpted by Pietro Bazzanti in marble

Sarcofago. Scultore: Pietro Bazzanti, riprende la tomba di Tennant, Sector D (D22M 610). Sec. XIX, post 9/1862. Ambito toscano. Sarcofago in marmo con disegni e stemma. [M: A: 144; L: 179.5; P: 88.5; P.s.: A: 21; L: 183.5; P: 94; RP.s.F: A: 91; L/P 228.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, incisa: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE JESSIE FOURTH DAUGHTER/ OF CAPT DONALD MACKENZIE OF HARTFIELDS ROSSHIRE AND WIFE/ OF CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH ESQ OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE/ [Below Casket] THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE SORROWING HUSBAND TO THE MEMORY OF THE FAITHFUL AND MOST AFFECTIONATE COMPANION AND PARTNER IN HIS EVERY JOY AND SORROW/ DURING A PERIOD OF XXXV YEARS. TO THE MEMORY OF THE CHRISTIAN WIFE AND MOTHER, THE KIND FRIEND OF ALL AROUND HER AND ESPECIALLY OF THE POOR AND DISTRESSED./ TO THE MEMORY OF HER WHO IN HER LAST AND PROTRACTED ILLNESS WAS AN EMINENT EXAMPLE OF THE POWER OF HOLY RELIGION./ IN THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH HOPE AND PATIENCE UNTIL WELCOMING DEATH AS THE PORTAL TO GLORY SHE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS./ WRITE "BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD" REV. XIV.13/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Anna Smith, l'Angleterre, Ecosse/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 316 Burial 05/09 Rev Ponton, 'inward complaint'/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Smith nata Mackenzie/ Anna/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 1 Settembre/ 1862/ Anni 56/ 801/ Tassinari/ Santini/ [Stemma]/A14/ CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH/ ENGLAND/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Christophe Smith, Esquire, l'Angleterre, rentier, fils de Henri/ IV: 1871-1875 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais, Francs 391, A/ FO 79 passim/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 427 Burial 21/01, age 77, Rev Tottenham, Casa Buggiani, via Cavour, 64/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Smith/ Cristofero/ Enrico/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 18 Gennaio/ 1871/ Anni 77/ 1115/ Mural Tablet, Holy Trinity Church, TO THE MEMORY OF A BRIGHT EXEMPLAR OF CONSISTENT PIETY CHRISTOPHER WEBB SMITH ESQRE LATE OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE BORN 1793 DIED 1871. FOR MANY YEARS SECRETARY OF THE VESTRY OF THIS CHURCH TO WHOSE WELFARE HIS BEST ENERGIES WERE DEVOTED, THIS TABLET IN ACCORDANCE WITH A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF A PUBLIC MEETING HELD JANUARY 27, 1871 HBM'S MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY IN THE CHAIR, HAS BEEN PUT UP BY MEANS OF A VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTION AMONG HIS FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS HERE AND IN ENGLAND IN TOKEN OF THEIR WARM APPRECIATION OF HIS LABOURS AND HIS MANY AMIABLE AND STERLING QUALITIES AS A CHRISTIAN AND A GENTLEMAN. "WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THE LORD." MATT. 25-23/ Tassinari speaks of his longevity, resident in Florence nearly 30 years/ N&Q 134. Christopher Webb Smith, b. at Camberwell, 13 May 1794, ob. 18 Jan 1871. Anne Jessie, 4th d. of Capt. Donald Mackenzie, of Hartfield, Rosshirew. of C.W. Smith, of the Bengal Civil Service. Intervento di pulitura, Alberto Casciani/ Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu, 5/2010. Pulitura, Dumitrescu, 2018. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
See Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' holdings, TAU.

This could be the tomb of A24/ GEORGE MARTIN ROBIGLIO's Scots grandmother. Notes and Queries a hundred years ago saw it as 'Jane Robiglio, d. of Francis _____.' Then the tombstone was discovered in two broken pieces built into a wall. It is now mended and restored to its rightful place. The Webbs note that in some notes accompanying a National Portrait Gallery caricature which depicts Jane's father Francis Anderson, W.S. ('writer to the signet'), he was profoundly deaf and after years as a bachelor married his sister's maid, the lowly-born Miss Martin. When asked by the Earl of Wemyss why he had not chosen someone of higher rank, he replied that he had not 'fashed himself', i.e. been bothered, to court a fine lady, besides, he liked the lassie and she liked him. It seems that Miss Martin may have introduced the twin-bearing gene into the family, for it looks from the Scottish baptismal records as if this Jane had twin brothers, David and John, in addition to another Francis. The stemma includes a coronet. 

 
Anderson or Robiglio arms with coronet crest incised by Bazzanti on marble

Cippo.  Marmista Bazzanti. Sec. XIX, post 4/1865. Ambito toscano. Cippo in marmo posto su basamento in pietra serena, recinto in pietra serena. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: ; L: ; P: ] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, incisa: [Stemma] SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ JANE ROBIGLIO/ ONLY DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS ANDERSON, ESQ, W.S./OF STONEYHILL INVERNESK/ COUNTY OF EDINBURGH/ DIED AT FLORENCE 18TH JANUARY 1859/ AGED 69/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Jane Robiglio, Angleterre/ II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Bazzanti, Paoli 60/ Q 340: 472 Paoli/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 262 Burial 20/01 Rev O'Neill/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Robiglio/ Giovanna/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 18 Gennaio/ 1859/ Anni 69/ 660/ N&Q 150. Jane, w. of Joseph Robiglio, ob. 18 Aug 1858, a. 69. Her father had died at Stoneyhill, 27 April 1823. Her mother was named Jane Martin. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

      

He has a fine coat of arms sculpted on his tomb.

     
Nicholson arms, shield sculpted in marble relief

Croce. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 12/1872. Ambito toscano. Croce e stemma, recinto. Intervento conservativo sul ferro, 2008. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 134; L: 66.5; P: 63.5; RMF: A: 70; L: 88; P: 202.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, incisa: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT NICHOLSON ESQ/ BORN NOV 8 1814./ DIED DEC 10 1872/ 1190/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Robert Nicholson, l'Angleterre/ IV: 1871-1875 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais, Francs 592, A/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 443, Burial 12/12, Rev Tottenham, Hotel d'Europe/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Nicholson/ Roberto/ Roberto/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 10 Dicembre/ 1872/ Anni 58/ 1190/ N&Q 257. Robert Nicholson, Esq., b. 6 Nov., 1814; ob. 10 Dec., 1872. Intervento di pulitura, Dumitrescu, 2011. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

   
Marryatt arms, shield and crest, sculpted by Giuseppe Bondi in marble relief

Croce. Scultore: Giuseppe Bondi. Sec. XIX, post 2/1873. Ambito toscano. Croce scolpita con stemmi, recinzione in ferro battuto. [M: A: 208; L: 83; P: 82; P.s.: A: 9; L: 83; P: 119; RF: A: 48; L: 110; P: 237.] Intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu,  2008. Possibile intervento di pulitura. Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese in lettere capitali e numeri arabi, incisa: IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ HADRIAN MARRYAT SON. / LATE OFFICER OF THE . . ./ WHO DIED AT FLORENCE FEBRUARY 25/ AGED . . ./ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Adrien Marryat, l'Angleterre/ IV: 1871-1875 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais, Francs  690, A/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 450, Burial 01/03, Age 28, Rev Tottenham, Albergo all'Alleanza, via Montebello/ Obituary, Times/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Marryat/ Adriano/ Orazio/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 25 Febbraio/ 1873/ Anni 40(sic)/ 1200/ N&Q 256. Adrian Edward Somerset Marryat, late-officer of the Rifle Brigade, ob. 25 Feb., 187(3?), a.28. Arms: Barry of six, on a canton a fleur-de-lis, impaling Quarterly, 1 and 4, three fleurs-de-lis ; 2 and 3, three leopards in pale. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
See Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei'. Richard Hengist Horne, A New Spirit of the Age, discusses his novelist father.

  

       

   

A2G/ A64/ 357/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS/ ENGLAND
National Gallery online: 'Born at Merton in England, in 1788 Wallis travelled to Italy, visiting Rome, Naples where he painted the surrounding countryside, and Sicily. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1806, and operated as an art dealer in Italy, and later Spain, most often working for British clients. He settled in Heidelberg in 1812, but returned to Italy in 1817 where he taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and painted frescoes and portraits. He died in Florence in 1847'. Stefano Tumidei adds that he came to Italy accompanying George Greville Earl of Warwick, was friends with the Icelandic sculptor Thorwaldson and with Goethe, many of his paintings for their strong colouring being more favoured in Russia. His career is similar to Andrew Wilson's. A monographic book on him was published by Monika von Wild in 1966. This is one among several tombs with a portrait medallion: A64/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS by Aristodemos Costoli, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER by Francesco Jerace; AB7/ INA BOSS SAULTER, by Ettore Ximenes; B4/ ELENA NIKITICNA DIK, NATA AKZYNOVA by Fyodor Fyodorovitsch Kamensky; C3/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH by Joel T. Hart; D108/ THEODORE PARKER by William Wetmore Story; D127/ JAMES ROBERTS, by Joel T. Hart?; E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR by Launt Thompson; E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE by Pietro Bazzanti, F27/ PHILIPPINA (SIMONS) CIAMPI, Joel T. Hart?) Augustus' son, Trajan Wallis, paints a portrait of Julia Savage Landor (portrayed also in marble at F128) and the children, Arnold and Julia.

        
Augustus Wallis, Tree foliage                             ristodemo Costoli, Augustus Wallis  Trajan Wallis, Julia Savage Landor, Arnold and Julia

   

  
Baldinotti arms with coronet crest, sculpted in relief on travertine

Lastra, recinto. Scultore ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 12/1874. Monumento in travertino, lastra ad angolo a ridosso del muro di cinta interno, scolpita con stemma, recinto in travertino e ferro; parte del ferro mancante ancor prima del 1993. Intervento restauro conservativo  I.F., intervento conservativo sul ferro, Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008, [Travertine A: 83. L: 104. P: 145; RTrF: A: 106. L: 295; P: 303.7.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in lettere capitali e numeri romani: GIUSEPPE BALDINOTTI NATO XXIV MAGGIO MDCCCLIV/ MORTO IL XXVI DICEMBRE MDCCCLXIV/ 1290/ [sulle poste] I//B [for Joachim e Boas, i nomi iscritti sulle poste del Tempio di Gerusalemme]/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Joseph Baldinotti, Italie, fils de Vincent Baldinotti/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: 63. Baldinotti/ Giuseppe/ Vincenzo/ Italia/ Firenze/ 26 Dicembre/ 1874/ Anni 11/ 1290/ traslato/ taken to family's chapel at the Allori/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

B2/ WALTER BENTINCK YELVERTON/ IRELAND/ & ANNA MARIA (BINGHAM) YELVERTON/ IRELAND
Bentinck Walter, at nine, Frederick and two girls, Mary and Cecilia, were left orphans by the death of their mother. Their father, Walter Yelverton, had now left politics and was cursitor in the Court of Chancery in Ireland. In 1808, 17-year-old Bentinck was admitted to Trinity College Dublin as a Fellow Commoner. He attained a Bachelor of Arts in the summer of 1814. He subsequently secured a commission in the 6th (or 1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot but narrowly missed service in the Napoleonic Wars. He was with the regiment in Cape Town when word arrived that his father had died in Ireland in June 1824. Bentinck Walter Yelverton duly succeeded to Belle Isle but his attempts to manage his father's affairs and to look after his two unmarried sisters earned him an unfortunate blot in his copy book when the Adjutant's Roll noted he had been 'Absent without Leave from 31 March 1826'. We have an enchanting essay on his regimental spoon contributed by Michael Ayrton: yelvertons.html. He subsequently retired on half-pay. In June 1829, he married his cousin, the Hon. Anna Maria Bingham, eldest daughter of John Bingham, 1st Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook, County Mayo. Their daughter Anna Maria Cecilia was born in 1833. Bentinck died in Florence in 1837, aged forty-five, and was interred in the Swiss-owned 'English' Cemetery. His daughter died in Nice aged just 13 in 1846 (B3).
      
His regimental spoon                                                           Crest, Lion passant regardant
 

     

  1870s Harper's Monthly 
Yelverton arms with crest of lion passant, motto '

    

 

   Harper's Monthly engraving 
Kellett arms with crest and motto,

  

B20/ JOHAN CLAES LAGERSVARD/ SVEZIA
He is the last descendant of his noble Swedish family, and has served in the Swedish and Norwegian Legation during the reigns of four Swedish monarchs and the Revolutions in Europe. With him, much later, is buried his wife Sophie Hugues, who had already been sculpted on the tomb as sadly taking leave of her husband, both in classical garb. Nearby is the tomb of B92/ AURORE (GRÅBERG DE HEMSO) ECKHARDT DURCKHEIM MONTMARTIN, the adopted daughter of Brigitte Hugues, Sophie Hugues's sister. The Lagersvard tomb is sculpted by the Swedish sculptor, Johan Niklas Bystrom, who worked in Rome with the Icelandic Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen (Þorvaldsson). Within an ourobouros (a serpent devouring its tail, for eternity) is a bee. Kelly Searsmith wrote, noting that the bee is the Egyptian hieroglyph for royalty, and that Pliny described bee hives being floated down the Nile so they could pollinate crops. (Monsanto pesticides kill bees.) Anna Porcinai sent a van-load of lavender plants which the Roma planted and now the cemetery is filled with contented bees, pollinating busily amongst these fragrant bushes. The Cemetery was subject to thirty years of weed-killer usage and no birds sang. When we stopped it six years ago, the blackbirds took to singing gloriously. Was the marble for Lagersvard's tomb transported from Carrara to Rome, by way of Livorno, then back again to Tuscany?

 

   

Jan Claes Lagersvard
Lagersvard arms with coronet crest sculpted by Johan Niclas Bystrom in marble

This Waterloo participant's uncle Bishop of London Beilby Porteous, of Scottish ancestry, was from Virginia, an Anglican divine deeply opposed to slavery: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beilby_Porteus. Edward Porteus has married an Italian wife and has only one surviving son. The tomb was badly vandalized but is now well restored and cleaned by Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu and Nicolai Ovrei.
 
  
Porteus arms, incised by Pietro Bazzanti on marble

B97/  HUGH MACDONELL/ SCOTLAND/ CANADA
JLMaquay, Diaries 5/6/1847 'Saturday  Attended the funeral of Mr Hugh MacDonell this morning at 6, fine weather and a large attendance. Bank & home for the remainder of the day.' Webbs note that he was a young Jacobite exile, who emigrated to America with his father and uncles, 1773, moving to Canada after US Independence, returning to England, 1804, becoming Consul at Algiers, 1813-1820, marrying in 1815 as second wife Ida Louise Ullic, daughter of Danish Consul. In 1816 he was arrested, tortured and enslaved by the Dey of Algiers, leading to the bombardment by Lord Exmouth, the father of A112 ADMIRAL THE HON. FLEETWOOD BROUGHTON REYNOLDS PELLEW who is buried in Sector A. Their daughter Ida married the Austrian B96/ FREDERICK ADOLPH KLEINKAUF,  an officer in the Emperor's army, during the Austrian occupation of Tuscany, their baby daughter, named Ida in turn, dying six hours after her birth. Thus the name 'Ida' is shared through three generations. Another daughter, B135/ LOUISE CATHERINE ADELAIDE (MACDONELL) CUMBERLAND, born in Algiers, buried near by, who is noted as having as parents Hugh and Ida MacDonell. While yet another daughter, Emily became the wife of the Marquis d'Aguado, one of the richest men in Spain, and was a lady in waiting to the Empress Eugenie of France. Their father bought the Oltrarno ex-convent, the Casa Annalena, and he appointed the Polish princes Poniatowski and the Marchese Luigi Torrigiani as guardians for his minor children, while his wife would marry the Duc de Talleyrand, Tallyrand's nephew, following his death.
 
   

MacDonell arms with crest and motto '

B24/ 1171/ MARY [KYD] DE DORNBERG/ ENGLAND/INDIA
Mary Kyd's father, Lieutenant General Alexander Kyd of the Bengal Engineers, was a relative of the Lt. General Robert Kyd who founded the Botanical Gardens in Calcutta. William de Dornberg, who participated with the British against Napoleon, was pensioned in 1831, thus is too early to be her husband, perhaps her father-in-law. Wikipedia: 'Robert Kyd made a request in his will that he be buried without any religious ceremony in the botanical garden that he founded (Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden), but was instead interred in South Park Street Cemetery. He also left behind specific payments to be made to his native servants "Rajemahl Missah ... in retribution for the unsuitable education given to him, entailing separation from his native soil and kindred. To the other native known by the name of George, in reparation of the injury done him by his former master, in alienating him from his tribe (understood Rajpoot), converting him to Christianity, and secluding him from all future connection with his family, the monthly sum of six rupees during his life; to both on condition of their continuing to serve Major Alexander Kyd during his residence in India. . ." Major Alexander Kyd was a relative of Robert and was the father of James Kyd (1786-1836) and his brother, also a Robert Kyd (d. 1825), who became shipbuilders. Kyd street and the locality Kidderpore derive their names from this family'. There seem to be further mixed-race Alexander Kyds, who settled in Austria, one of whom may be this lady's father. She is thus more cosmopolitan than she is English.

  
Dornberg or Kyd arms, shield and crest, incised on marble

    
Wagniere arms sculpted in marble on the Duomo façade

C9/ JEAN SAMUEL GUERBER/ SVIZZERA
His stemma gave the bear emblematic of Berne in Switzerland. Because his body is brought from Rovigo the Cemetery lacks the usual information concerning him, such as his death date, his father's name, his mother's maiden name, his profession, etc.

 
Berne arms of a bear, visible eighteen years ago, within a garland of oak leaves, sculpted in marble relief

 
Scarlett or Mostyn arms sculpted by F. Mattei in marble relief

The two Counts Gigliucci are the sons of Clara Novello, the English singer of the great music publishing family. Her father, Vincent Novello, was an Italian who married an Englishwoman. Clara Novello opened the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition her voice filling the whole vast hall without electronic support, B32/ HIRAM POWERS' 'Greek Slave' being placed at the centre of that Crystal Palace. Mary Somerville in her autobiography gives a fine account of listening to Clara Novello, in old age, still singing exquisitely. The counts in turn marry two sisters, daughters of the Jewish Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Charles Mozley.  Garibaldi was frequently a visitor to Clara and her son, Count Mario, who fought for him during the Risorgimento. Clara (like Eleanora Duse) had to resume her singing career to support her family when their property was lost. Based in Fermo, except when in exile, their Florentine residence was the Villa Rosa which now houses Syracuse University in Piazza Savonarola, Florence. The American University paid for the restoration of these tombs, whose pietra serena was crumbling into sand, by Alberto Casciani, and Aureo Anello contributed the work of Daniel-Claudiu Dumitrescu conserving the iron and brass railings around them. A further monument for this family with their stemma punning on lily is to be found in the Santissima Annunziata.
 

  

   

C21/ COUNTESS CHARLOTTE SOPHIA (MOZLEY) GIGLIUCCI/ ENGLAND C22/ CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI
The two Counts Gigliucci are the sons of Clara Novello, the English singer of the great music publishing family, who in turn marry two sisters, daughters of the Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Their Villa Rosa is now owned by Syracuse University in Florence. The forsythia on the arch is always the first to flower, even in December-January, in the Cemetery. See above for the fuller account.
 
 

 
Gigliucci arms with coronet crest, sculpted, mottoes, '

  

        

N° 30                Le vingt six Mars mil huit cent trente un,
Mme. D'Arcy-Elizabeth Judge d'Arcy Irvine, femme
Irvine.               de George Marcus d'Arcy Irvine, de
                           Castle Irvine, Comté de Fermanagh, en
x et dix mois  Irlande, agée de soixante trois ans x, décédée
                          à Florence le vingt-trois du meme mois,
                          a étée ensevelie dans le Cimetière de l'Eglise 
                         Evangélique.            Chs Recordon~

III: 1865-1870 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais; Francs 258/ Q 107: 418 Paoli/ Obituary, Morning Post, Belfast Newsletter/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: D'Arcy Irvine/ Elizabeth Judge/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 23 Marzo/ 1830/ Anni 64/ 30/ N&Q 20. Eliz. Judge, w. of George Marcus D'Arcy Irvine, Esq, of Castle Irvine, Fermanagh, b. 23 May 1766, ob. 23 March 1830, a. 63/ See D'Arcy, Irvine. Intervento di consolidazione, l'iscrizione depinta, pulitura, Casciani/Dumitrescu, 2011. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

GEORGE TOWNLEY/ ENGLAND/ George Townley, l'Angleterre, fils de Thomas/ GL23777/1 N° 434 Burial 09/12 Rev Tottenham; Baptism children Albert b 15/07/69, Alfred b 11/09/60 Henry b 12/02/57, Mary Victoria b 11/12/65, all bp 26/02/70 Rev Tottenham, father George, mother Annunciata Donati/ IV: 1871-1875 'Registre des Sepultures' avec detail des frais, Francs 337, B/ Townley/ Giorgio/ Tommaso/ Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 7 Dicembre/ 1871/ Anni 58/ 1152/
He is the son of Thomas Townley (F91) and Mary Townley (D56), the brother of Robert Townley (E144), and was buried in the original Sector B (now Sectors E,F), but who now lacks a tomb.

 
Townley arms, shield, sculpted on sandstone/pietra serena 

Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 7/1852. Ambito toscano. Cippo in marmo, scolpito con una stemma, marmo sporco, posto su  basamento in pietra serena, recinto in pietra serena. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 108; L: 51; P: 8; P.s. A: 20; L: 75; P: 31; R: A: L: P: ] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: MARY TOWNLEY DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 30 OF JULY 1852 AGED 69 YEARS/ EVER SACRED TO HER MEMORY THIS LAST FILIAL TRIBUTE HENRY RECORDS/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sèpultures avec detail des frais', Paoli 565 + Paoli 40/ Q 28: 300 Paoli/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL23777/1 N° 174 Burial 09/12, Rev Tottenham/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Townley/ Vedova Marta/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 30 Luglio/ 1852/ Anni 69/ 484/ N&Q 63. Mary Townley, ob. 30 July 1852, a. 69. Erected by her s. Henry. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

D81/ JOAN I. KANTAKUZIN/ MOLDOVA/ROMANIA
Descended from an Emperor of Constantinople, a Prince of Greece, Moldavia, Poland and Russia, he was an owner of Roma slaves, he died when a friend and guest of Prince Demidoff. A Romeo and Juliet story of a double suicide between a Frenchwoman and one of his Roma slaves, forbidden to marry each other by law, along with the translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin into Romanian, started the liberation of the Roma in that country. His tomb is in the same style as that for PAUL POLIDORE VENTURA, D83.

  

 
Kantakuzin arms with three crown crests, supporters of a brace of angels, sculpted in relief on marble   

Cippo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 11/1859. Ambito toscano. Cippo con stemma, croce mancante, recinto in pietra serena, ferro mancante. Possibile intervento di pulitura. [M: A: 155; L: 62.5; P: 55; P.s. A: 32; L: 74; P: 65; RP.s.: A: 70; L: 107; P: 192.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in rumeno incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: AICE ODIXNESTE/ VORNIKUL/ JOAN I. KANTAKUZIN/ NASKUT LA MOLDOVA LA 1823/ MORT LA FLORENCE LA 1859/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Jean de Catacuzène, Moldavie/ Q 326 135 Paoli/ Talalay: Moldova 1825 - 4.11(21.10).1858;  di famiglia rumena della buona società : il capostirpe della così detta linea svizzera dei Kantakuzin; 'la cerimonia funebre è celebrata dal padre Platon Travlinskij, priore della cappella di Casa Demidov nella proprieta di San Donato", MKF, N° 650, RC/ Prince of Greece, Moldavia, Poland and Russia/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sèpultures avec detail des frais', Paoli 499 + Paoli 40/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Cantucuzène/ Giovanni/ [Nicolai] / Romania/ Firenze/ 2 Novembre/ 1858/ Anni 35/ 650/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/°=Teodoru Catalin-Andrei. Pulitura, Dumitrescu, 2016. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 
Кантакузин Иван Николаевич, Молдавия 1825 — Флоренция 4.11(21.10).1858 № 650, D24Q [родоначальник т.н. швейцарской линий Кантакузинов].
Romanian Wikipedia, Familia Cantacuzino: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinastia_Cantacuzino
 

  
Ventura arms with coronet crest, motto '

  
Burrough arms, shield, incised

 
Wital arms, shield, knight's helm crest, supporters of lions?, in cast iron 

Cippo. Scultore: Emanuele Caroni. Sec. XIX, post 5/1853. Ambito toscano. Intervento conservativo sul ferro  Daniel Dumitrescu, 2008. Cippo in ferro e ghisa, sul fronte stemma e iscrizione, sul tergo in alto ghirlanda con serpente, in basso croce inghirlandata. [F: A: 161; L: 106.5; P: 52; P.s. A: 40; L: 136; P: 83] Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: MARIA/ DI G. MARTINO WITAL ET ANGELINA CA. . ARIS/ SVIZZERA/ MORTA CON RELIGIOSA RASSEGNAZIONE/ IL 6 MAGGIO 1853/ APPENA VENTICINQUENNE/ L'AFFLITTO PADRE E FRATELLO/ . M.P./ / 505/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Marie Wital, Sent, Canton des Grisons, en Suisse, fille de Jean Martin Wital, Negociant, domicilié à  Modena/  II: 1859-1865 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Francs 112 paid by Otto Paolo Wital for lot enlargment/ Q 62: 175 Paoli/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazioni nel Cimitero di Pinti: Wital/ Maria/ Gio: Martino/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 6 Maggio/ 1853/ Anni 26/ 505/ I: 1852-1859 'Registre des Sepultures avec detail des frais, Paoli 446/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ Trizzino. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

Sector E
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E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE/ SCOTLAND
A beautiful Neoclassical tomb showing the wife and son mourning the spouse and father whose medallion bas relief bust is portrayed within an ourobouros.  This is one among several tombs with a portrait medallion: A64/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS by Aristodemos Costoli, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER by Francesco Jerace; AB7/ INA BOSS SAULTER, by Ettore Ximenes; B4/ ELENA NIKITICNA DIK, NATA AKZYNOVA by Fyodor Fyodorovitsch Kamensky; C3/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH by Joel T. Hart; D108/ THEODORE PARKER by William Wetmore Story; D127/ JAMES ROBERTS, by Joel T. Hart?; E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR by Launt Thompson; E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE by Pietro Bazzanti, F27/ PHILIPPINA (SIMONS) CIAMPI, Joel T. Hart(?) The Raeburn portrait of 'Walter Kennedy Lawrie of Woodhall, Lauriston', 1815, now in Philadelphia may be of his grandfather, likewise the copy of Thomas Busby's A General History of Music, 1819 with his bookplate, currently on sale by an Italian bookseller, indicating it may have come to Italy by way of his grandson. His spouse is Clorinda, his son Walter, who marries a Giulia, both of whom we see sculpted on this tomb in classical garb, as we see also with the tombs for B20/ JOHAN CLAES LAGERSVARD and D126/ CHARLES WITAL. The Webbs add:  'Walter Kennedy Lawrie I've been trying to disentangle the ancestry of this man, who I suspect was consumptive – certainly at 31 he was young to die.  Lord Malmesbury, from time to time an incompetent Foreign Secretary, remembered him in his Memoirs, published in 1885: ''There was at that time [1832] in Florence a Scotch banker of the name of Lawrie, who had a very good gallery of pictures.  He had married a most beautiful girl of poor parents in Florence, having taken her as a child and educated her for his wife.  We made her acquaintance, and found her a very pleasant and ladylike person.' The wife was Clorinda Aretini, and (to judge from the fact that WKL received Protestant burial) it was a mixed marriage.  She, their one son, another Walter Kennedy, and his wife Julia, were all buried up at San Miniato.  The son too died youngish, on 1 February 1875, although it's not quite clear how old he was – 'in the flower of his age' according to his monument, so not much more than 40, if that.  The 'good gallery of pictures' included one that was believed to be a Raphael, but is now thought to be a copy of the 'Madonna di Loreto' in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.  The younger Walter Kennedy Lawrie in the 1850s had it scrutinised by experts in Rome who pronounced it to be genuine (only modern x-rays have proved otherwise). What the elder Walter Kennedy's activity as a banker was I don't know – Malmesbury is the only authority that I have for this occupation – but where his money came from is hardly in doubt.  His father William Kennedy was a Jamaica planter, born in 1769, who in 1802 inherited Laurieston, an estate in Galloway, from a Walter Sloane Laurie.  As people so often did in these circumstances, he added the name Laurie (or Lawrie) to his own.  He already had children, including a Thomas who probably stayed in the West Indies, and a William who probably came with him to Scotland, but I think he was married again, in Edinburgh in 1805, to the daughter of another West Indies planter. Our Walter – who was given the name of the man from whom his father had acquired the Galloway estate – looks like the child of this marriage and was born (someone says) 20 August 1806, but I can't find out where.  It was at some point in that year that his father William received a letter from the manager of his estate in Jamaica, which was called Woodhall, reporting on the purchase of slaves and lamenting the shortage of females, which was due to 'the lengths to which the abolition business has been carried in England'.   William Kennedy died in 1811, and I suspect that the Raeburn is a portrait of him, not of a Walter.  Not only do these two names often get confused, but I simply can’t find any previous Walter Kennedy Lawrie.  The fact that William Kennedy took the additional name only on his inheritance in 1802 rather argues against it.   The name Woodhall was later given to the family's estate in Galloway, which was inherited by the son William already mentioned, who would on this reading be Walter's older half-brother.  Was young Walter delicate?  Was that why he turns up, aged not yet 20, in Florence? (He subscribes to Vieusseux in February of that year.)  And did he transmit a weak constitution to his son?  What he did transmit was money.  If Malmesbury was right that his wife's family were poor, they suddenly found that as the child's guardians they had the management of a fortune.  And part of it – which I have only just found out – consisted of palazzi, one in Borgo SS Apostoli and one on the opposite bank of the Arno, which housed the much-frequented Hotel variously called the Quattro Nazioni or Quatre Nations.  There seems to have been a bit of a spat with an hotelier who thought he owned it before the guardians put in one of their own – an Aretini – as manager in 1839.  They were now calling it the Albergo Reale dell' Arno, although to judge by Vieusseux, people went on staying at the Quatre Nations'. 

      

Kennedy or Lawrie arms, shield, incised on marble

Stele. Scultore: Pietro Bazzanti. Sec. XIX, post 11/1837. Ambito toscano. Stele in marmo scolpita e incisa, sul fronte due figure classicamente abbigliate, vedova piangente per la morte del consorte, braccio sinistro poggiante accanto ad un'urna, ai suoi piedi il figlio in lacrime, figura del consorte racchiusa in un ouroboros, marmo non molto sporco. Monumento sepolcrale a edicola ornato da un rilievo figurato e poggiante su basamento a due ordini modanato. Coronamento a timpano con stemma frontale e acroteri lisci. [M: A: 207; L: 91.7; P: 54.5.] Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: N.164/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE/ BORN IN SCOTLAND 20TH AUGUST/ 1806/ DIED IN FLORENCE 28TH NOVEMBER 1837/ THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY/ AND BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD [Job 1.21]/ THY WILL BE DONE [Matt 6.10; 26.42; Luke 11.2]/ GL 23774 N° 60 Burial 08-12/ See Kennedy/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Lawrie/ Gualtiero Kennedy/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 29 Novembre/ 1837/ Anni 31/ 164/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/ Europeana entry. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR/ AMERICA
This American Maecenas, married, gay, founded Graham's Magazine, had wealth, was shipwrecked and injured, appointed American Consul in Florence by President Grant, occupied the Villa Valfonda, now the Palazzo dei Congressi, Claire Claremont (Mary Shelley's stepsister, who bore Lord Byron the child Allegra), lodging with him, and he collected autographs, books, paintings which he willed to the Century Association, New York, http://archive.org/details/catalogueofjames00centiala, which sold them at auction.  This is one among several tombs with a portrait medallion: A64/ GEORGE AUGUSTUS WALLIS by Aristodemos Costoli, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER by Francesco Jerace; AB7/ INA BOSS SAULTER, by Ettore Ximenes; B4/ ELENA NIKITICNA DIK, NATA AKZYNOVA by Fyodor Fyodorovitsch Kamensky; C3/ THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH by Joel T. Hart; D108/ THEODORE PARKER by William Wetmore Story; D127/ JAMES ROBERTS, by Joel T. Hart?; E12/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR by Launt Thompson; E9/ WALTER KENNEDY LAWRIE by Pietro Bazzanti, F27/ PHILIPPINA (SIMONS) CIAMPI, Joel T. Hart(?). Launt Thompson, besides the bas relief of James Lorimer Graham on this tomb,  also created the bronze bas-relief to Bayard Taylor, 20/9/1881, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Algernon Swinburne's elegy to his friend, James Lorimer Graham, appeared in his Poems and Ballads, Second Series, 1904:

 
Graham arms with crest of Pelican in its Piety and motto, 'NE OUBLIEZ' sculpted in marble relief

Sarcofago. Scultore: Launt Thompson, Signature: Launt.Thompson Jr 1878. Sec. XIX, post 4/1876. Ambito toscano./ Sarcofago in marmo bianco, inciso, sul fronte medaglione, su uno dei fianchi stemma.  [M: A: 163; L: 214; P: 113; P.s. A: 22; L: 225; P: 123.] / Iscrizione sepolcrale in inglese e greco incisa e scolpita in rilievo in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: [Alpha] NEW YORK/ 1835/ JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, JR/ [Omega] / FLORENCE/ 1876/ Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate nel Cimitero di Pinti: Graam [Graham]/ Giacomo Lorimer/ Natale/ America/ Firenze/ 30 Aprile/ 1876/ Anni 41/ 1355/ Freeman, 224/ Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda/°=Jeffrey Begeal.

   

 

     

Lyon Herbert arms, sculpted in relief by Felicie de Fauveau on pietre serena

   

Routh arms, shield, crest and motto 'HAUD IMMEMOR' sculpted in marble relief by Odoardo Fantacchiotti                                                                     

   
Moore arms with crest and motto

 

   

   
Loewenich arms, shield, knight's helm crest, supporters of a brace of lions regardant, sculpted in relief on marble 

Tomba in forma di croce. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 3/1802. Ambito toscano. Tomba gotica orizziontale  formata come una croce, inciso con lettere capitale e minuscule in fraktura, una stemma al piede, in marmo bianco. [M: A: 38.5; L: 197.5; P: 71.1 Iscrizione sepolcrale tedesca incisa in lettere gotiche, capitali e non, e numeri arabi: Hier ruht/ Gustav Gabriel von Loewenich/ geb in Burstcheidt bei Aachen/ den 8 maerz 1802/ gest in Florenz den 30 maerz 1861// Ev. Joh: vi.40/ Das ist aber der Wille des der mich/ gesandt hat das wer den Sohn/ soeth und glaust an ihn habe/ das ewige leben Ich werde ihn/ auferwechen am wengsten tage/ Dem geliesten Bruder die tief/ betrueste Schwester/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: baron Gustave Loewenich, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aquagrani), Trage du Rhin, proprietaire/ Q 445: 320 Paoli/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Loewenich (de)/ Gustavo/ / Germania/ Firenze/ 30 Marzo/ 1861/ Anni 65/ 725/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present. 

           Swiss arms of a cross on a shield, surrounded by an olive garland, sculpted in relief on marble                                                                                   Harper's Monthly engraving 

Sarcofago. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post  4/1863. Ambito toscano. Sarcofago in marmo bianco scolpito con medaglione, foglie di quercia, olivo, felce. Restaurata: Opificio delle Pietre Dure e Palazzo Spinelli. [M: A: 130; L: 180.8; P: 57; P.s. A: 37; L: 188.5; P: 67.]  Iscrizione sepolcrale in piombo in lettere capitali e numeri romani: / PX/ A GIAMPIETRO VIEUSSEUX/ NATO IN ONEGLIA DI FAMIGLIA GINEVRINA/ IL XXVIIII DI SETTEMBRE MDCCLXXVIIII/ MANCATO IN FIRENZE IL XXVIII D'APRILE MDCCCLXIII/ GLI AMICI ED ESTIMATORI/ DEI MOLTI SUOI MERITI VERSO LA CIVILTA' ITALIANA/ POSERO QUESTO MONUMENTO/ [Swiss Cross]/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Jean Pierre Vieusseux, Genève, rentier, fils de Pierre Vieusseux et de Jean Elisabeth, née Vieusseux/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Vieusseux/ Gio: Pietro/ Pietro/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 28 Aprile/ 1863/ Anni 83/ 828/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Intervento di pulitura, Dumitrescu, 2014. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.

  
Guicciardini arms, shield with coronet crest, incised on marble framed in travertine

Cubo. Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX, post 2/1874. Ambito toscano. Cubo di travertina con panelli incisi in marmo bianco su quatro lati. [M: A: 117; L: 108; P:  108; P.s. A: 15; L: 110; P: 110.] Iscrizione sepolcrale incisa in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: ALLA CARA MEMORIA/ DELLA CONTESSA GIULIA GUICCIARDINI/ VEDOVA MORROCCHI / - /NACQUE/ DAL CONTE FRANCESCO GIUCCIARDINI/ E DALLA MARCHESA ELISABETTA PUCCI/ IL 4 LUGLIO 1806/ E RESE LO SPIRITO/ NELLA PACE DEL SIGNORE/ IL 27 FEBRAIO 1874/ - / "ELLA NON E' MORTA MA DORME" (Luca 8.52)// RIPOSA IN PACE/ ANIMA ELETTA/ TU VEDESTI LA LUCE DI DIO/ TU TROVASTI GRAZIA/ IN GESU' REDENTORE/ - /TOSTO RISORGERAI/ E INSIEME COI RISCATTATI/ CHE LASCIASTI IN TERRA/ IN CORPO GLORIOSO/ ANDRAI AL SIGNORE (1Corinzi 15:50-53; 1Tessalonicesi 4:15-17)// ELLA SENTIVA LA POTENZA DELLA FEDE/ IN CRISTO/ E SPESSO RIPETEVA/ "UMILIATEVI/ GETTANDO SOPRA LUI/ TUTTA LA VOSTRA SOLLECITUDINE/ PERCIOCCHE EGLI HA CURA DI VOI" (I Pietro 5.6-7)/ - /S'ADDORMENTO NEL SIGNORE/ UDENDO QUELLE PAROLE DI VITA ETERNA/ "IL SIGNORE E IL MIO PASTORE/ NULLA MI MANCHERA"(Salmo 23)/ "NELLA CASA DEL PADRE MIO/ VI SONO MOLTE STANZE"(Giovanni 14.2)// [Stemma dei Guicciardini]/ Eglise Evangelique-Reformée de Florence Régistre des Morts: Comtesse Julie Guicciardini, Vve Marrocchi, l'Italie, fille de François Guicciardini/ Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Guicciardini Vedova Morrocchi/ Contessa Giulia/ Francesco/ Italia/ Firenze/ 27 Febbraio/ 1874/ Anni 68/ 1249/ Belle Arti scheda, 1993-1997. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
Guicciardini  incised

   
Bulkley arms incised with coronet crest on marble