Monument to Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Kensal Green Cemetery

A very large square Gothic pedestal tomb, in three stages with sloping off-sets, placed diagonally on a square pavement and surmounted by a foliate cross on an octagonal base. The lower stage has four engaged corner piers with trefoil panels. The main inscription describes Otway as having ‘served sixty-two years in the English navy with perseverance and in fulfilment of the duties due to his sovereign and country’, and alludes to his ‘great professional deeds’ and ‘constant flow of parental and Christian kindness’. On the stage below is inscribed a text from John 6:37: ‘All that the father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.’ Other inscriptions commemorate Otway’s wife Clementina (d.1851) and their daughter Clementina Matilda (d.1877).