Monument To Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West Of West Tower Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Monument.
Monument To Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West Of West Tower Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fossil-tower-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Type
- Monument
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHWARK
TQ3579 ST MARYCHURCH STREET 636-1/6/890 (North side) Monument to Prince Lee Boo approx 10m W of W tower, Church of St Mary
GV II
Chest tomb with related headstone to Prince Lee Boo. Dated 1784. Yellow brick, rectangular tomb with Portland stone, scalloped headstone at one end and inscribed Portland stone ledger. HISTORY: erected by the Hon. East India Company in memory of Prince Lee Boo of the Pelew Islands, whose father had treated the shipwrecked crew of the East Indiaman Antelope' with kindness in 1738. Lee Boo returned to London with Captain Wilson of the Antelope' who is commemorated on the headstone, and died of smallpox. The inscription ends, "Stop, reader, stop, let Nature shed a tear / A prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies buried here".
Listing NGR: TQ3514479837
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