THE REV. ROBERT JOHN TENNANT// THIS TABLET ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION OF MANY MEMBERS OF THIS CONGREGATION ANXIOUS TO TESTIFY THEIR ESTEEM AND APPROBATION OF THE TALENTS, ENERGY AND HIGH CHARACTER OF HIM WHO FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS FAITHFULLY DISCHARGED THE DUTIES OF CHAPLAIN TO THE BRITISH RESIDENTS IN THIS CITY, AND PLACED IN THIS CHAPEL BY A PUBLIC VOTE OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION, IS INTENDED TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE REV ROBERT JOHN TENNANT MA OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHO WAS BORN 14 JANUARY 1809, AND DIED 24 JULY 1842. "THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED"
JLMaquay, Diaries 24/7/1842 Tennant dies 26/7/1842 'attended Tennant's funeral this morning'. He is buried beside the first husband and child (F71/ DAVID REID/MARY REID) of his wife, Mariquita Eroles, his grave much lower than theirs. A hard-working Anglican priest in Florence, judging from the archival records, he took pity on the Spanish widow of the disturbed self-harming David Reid, marrying her and not long afterwards dying himself. Holy Trinity Church voted to raise a monument to him there which his widow violently opposed, saying he had a perfectly good one in the English Cemetery. The plaque is now in the garden of the former Holy Trinity Church. Mariquita Tennant then emigrated to England, and founded the Clewer Sisters House of Mercy, training protitutes to be servants. She is buried there, not between her first and second husbands in Florence, though the space remains for her, and her Clewer tomb once was of an open and empty coffin, saying 'Non est hic, resurrexit', surrounded by an iron railing, which has since disappeared. A blue plaque honours her in Windsor.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23774, PRO RG 33/114, Chaplain at Legation, died at Fiesole, Burial 26-07, Rev H Gipps/ Maquay Diaries: 24 Jul; 26 Jul 1842/ Obituary, Standard, Times/ Tablet in garden of Waldensian Church (formerly Holy Trinity). Tablet Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Tenant/ Roberto/ / America/ Firenze/ 24 Luglio/ 1842/ Anni 33/ 246. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
JLMaquay, Diaries 24/7/1842 Tennant dies 26/7/1842 'attended Tennant's funeral this morning'. He is buried beside the first husband and child (F71/ DAVID REID/MARY REID) of his wife, Mariquita Eroles, his grave much lower than theirs. A hard-working Anglican priest in Florence, judging from the archival records, he took pity on the Spanish widow of the disturbed self-harming David Reid, marrying her and not long afterwards dying himself. Holy Trinity Church voted to raise a monument to him there which his widow violently opposed, saying he had a perfectly good one in the English Cemetery. The plaque is now in the garden of the former Holy Trinity Church. Mariquita Tennant then emigrated to England, and founded the Clewer Sisters House of Mercy, training protitutes to be servants. She is buried there, not between her first and second husbands in Florence, though the space remains for her, and her Clewer tomb once was of an open and empty coffin, saying 'Non est hic, resurrexit', surrounded by an iron railing, which has since disappeared. A blue plaque honours her in Windsor.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23774, PRO RG 33/114, Chaplain at Legation, died at Fiesole, Burial 26-07, Rev H Gipps/ Maquay Diaries: 24 Jul; 26 Jul 1842/ Obituary, Standard, Times/ Tablet in garden of Waldensian Church (formerly Holy Trinity). Tablet Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Tenant/ Roberto/ / America/ Firenze/ 24 Luglio/ 1842/ Anni 33/ 246. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
THE REV. ROBERT JOHN TENNANT// THIS TABLET ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION OF MANY MEMBERS OF THIS CONGREGATION ANXIOUS TO TESTIFY THEIR ESTEEM AND APPROBATION OF THE TALENTS, ENERGY AND HIGH CHARACTER OF HIM WHO FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS FAITHFULLY DISCHARGED THE DUTIES OF CHAPLAIN TO THE BRITISH RESIDENTS IN THIS CITY, AND PLACED IN THIS CHAPEL BY A PUBLIC VOTE OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION, IS INTENDED TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE REV ROBERT JOHN TENNANT MA OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHO WAS BORN 14 JANUARY 1809, AND DIED 24 JULY 1842. "THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED"
JLMaquay, Diaries 24/7/1842 Tennant dies 26/7/1842 'attended Tennant's funeral this morning'. He is buried beside the first husband and child (F71/ DAVID REID/MARY REID) of his wife, Mariquita Eroles, his grave much lower than theirs. A hard-working Anglican priest in Florence, judging from the archival records, he took pity on the Spanish widow of the disturbed self-harming David Reid, marrying her and not long afterwards dying himself. Holy Trinity Church voted to raise a monument to him there which his widow violently opposed, saying he had a perfectly good one in the English Cemetery. The plaque is now in the garden of the former Holy Trinity Church. Mariquita Tennant then emigrated to England, and founded the Clewer Sisters House of Mercy, training protitutes to be servants. She is buried there, not between her first and second husbands in Florence, though the space remains for her, and her Clewer tomb once was of an open and empty coffin, saying 'Non est hic, resurrexit', surrounded by an iron railing, which has since disappeared. A blue plaque honours her in Windsor.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23774, PRO RG 33/114, Chaplain at Legation, died at Fiesole, Burial 26-07, Rev H Gipps/ Maquay Diaries: 24 Jul; 26 Jul 1842/ Obituary, Standard, Times/ Tablet in garden of Waldensian Church (formerly Holy Trinity). Tablet Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Tenant/ Roberto/ / America/ Firenze/ 24 Luglio/ 1842/ Anni 33/ 246. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
JLMaquay, Diaries 24/7/1842 Tennant dies 26/7/1842 'attended Tennant's funeral this morning'. He is buried beside the first husband and child (F71/ DAVID REID/MARY REID) of his wife, Mariquita Eroles, his grave much lower than theirs. A hard-working Anglican priest in Florence, judging from the archival records, he took pity on the Spanish widow of the disturbed self-harming David Reid, marrying her and not long afterwards dying himself. Holy Trinity Church voted to raise a monument to him there which his widow violently opposed, saying he had a perfectly good one in the English Cemetery. The plaque is now in the garden of the former Holy Trinity Church. Mariquita Tennant then emigrated to England, and founded the Clewer Sisters House of Mercy, training protitutes to be servants. She is buried there, not between her first and second husbands in Florence, though the space remains for her, and her Clewer tomb once was of an open and empty coffin, saying 'Non est hic, resurrexit', surrounded by an iron railing, which has since disappeared. A blue plaque honours her in Windsor.
Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL 23774, PRO RG 33/114, Chaplain at Legation, died at Fiesole, Burial 26-07, Rev H Gipps/ Maquay Diaries: 24 Jul; 26 Jul 1842/ Obituary, Standard, Times/ Tablet in garden of Waldensian Church (formerly Holy Trinity). Tablet Registro alfabetico delle tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Tenant/ Roberto/ / America/ Firenze/ 24 Luglio/ 1842/ Anni 33/ 246. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata Svizzera, 1827-present.
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