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NAME TYPE MATERIAL DATE Charles Hussey Packe Recumbent civilian Marble by Richard Westmacott 1842

Charles, who died at Eton, is depicted lying on a mattress, which is on a Gothic tomb-chest. Wearing his school clothes, his head rests on a cushion, a sheet covers the lower part of the body up to the chest. The inscription, over three panels, on the south, east and west elevations of the chest reads: Sacred to the memory of Charles Hussey Packe only son of George Hussey Packe Esq. and Mary Ann Lydia his wife of Caythorpe in the county of Lincoln It pleased an all-wise provendence to cut his life short by a malignant fever at the early age of fifteen years, while at school at Eton on the 28th October 1842. And to his inscrutable will his afflicted parents, after having painfully watched his disease to its fatal termination, bowed in pious resignation in firm reliance that their affectionate, excellent and promising child had exchanged the cares of this world for eternal bliss in heaven. Febre gravi puerum correptum flevit etona. Heu! Spes et duro funere ruptus amor! Quem non in terris potuit pia cura morari huic melins novit consuluisse Deus. quid gemimus? Coeli in regnum felicior haeres i, puer! Aeternus quo jubet ire pater! With fever seized, Etona mourned her son. Alas! Fond care and hope by death undone! On earth to save affection vainly tried; but God a better issue could provide. Why mourn we? Happier thou! To whom is love th'eternal father given a heritage above. Sepulchral Effigies of Leicestershire and Rutland Text copyright Max Matthews 2002. Selected text copyright Bob Trubshaw 2025–6. Images copyright Max Matthews 2002 or Bob Trubshaw 2002, 2025–6. No copying or reproduction without prior written permission. Published by Heart of Albion Press Back to top of this page This website does not gather or store any visitor information.