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First Line: This monument / is sacred memory
Last Line: And by the benevolence of his heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron
Subject(s): India; Malkin, Benjamin Heath (1797-1837)


This Monument
Is sacred to the memory
Of
SIR BENJAMIN HEATH MALKIN, Knight,
One of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature;
A man eminently distinguished
By his literary and scientific attainments,
By his professional learning and ability,
By the clearness and accuracy of his intellect,
By diligence, by patience, by firmness, by love of truth,
By public spirit, ardent and disinterested,
Yet always under the guidance of discretion,
By rigid uprightness, by unostentatious piety,
By the serenity of his temper,
And by the benevolence of his heart.





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