Memorial, Tomb Wood, Clandeboye Estate, Bangor, County Down, BT19 1RN

A Neo-classical memorial urn erected around 1820, located on the Clandeboye Estate approximately 300 metres south-east of Clandeboye House, on the edge of Tomb Wood. The memorial is a good example of its period, notable for its style, proportions, and its connections with the Dufferin family.

The memorial consists of a limestone panelled pedestal surmounted by a half-reeded vase and egg finial on a replacement stem. The east face bears an inscription: "In memory of a loved and lamented nephew Robert Temple-Blackwood who fell at the Battle of Waterloo Sunday 18th June 1815, this urn is placed here by Anna Dorothea Dufferin". The south face carries lines from Edward Young's 18th-century poem "The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality": "What days, what hours, but knocks at human hearts, to wake the soul to sense of future scenes." The north and west panels are blank.

The memorial was erected by Anne-Dorothea Foster, Dowager Lady Dufferin and Claneboye, aunt of the deceased. Captain Robert Temple Blackwood was the eldest son of Hans Blackwood, the third Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, born on 13 July 1788. He died on 18 June 1815 at the age of 26, killed in action at Waterloo while serving as an officer with the 69th Foot. He had previously fought in the Siege of Badajoz in 1811, where he was severely wounded. A further memorial to Robert Blackwood exists in the private chapel at Clandeboye, indicating the significance of his death within the family.

The memorial is sited in a small landscaped clearing at the edge of Tomb Wood, embraced by dense vegetation to the west and north sides with further mature trees surrounding the site. The wood itself has been named "Tomb Wood" on ordnance survey maps from the third edition (1901) onwards, though the memorial itself does not appear on any historic ordnance survey map editions.