31 JULY 1971, page 11

Anniversary: Thomas Gray Died July 30, 1771

Elegy written in St. Peter's churchyard Burnham, Sunday, August 28, 1737 PETER WATSON-SMYTH ON July 30, 1771, Thomas Gray died at the age of fifty-four, leaving behind a small,......

The Epitaph.

HERE rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown, Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was......