Molyneaux Bunny

[poliphilo]

HERE lieth Molyneaux Bunny who served with Reputation in the Armies of King William and Queen Ann and was a Gentleman born He died on the 6th day of May Anno Dom 1749

No- I didn't invent it. Here's the original inscription.....



Bunny is buried in the churchyard in the Yorkshire town of Penistone (I didn't invent that either) 


 

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Oh NO, I should think Molyneaux Bunny would be daintily shod, tiny feet, big heart.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

In a red coat with black facings....

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

But a lovely lace-edged handkerchief, which he carries in the long velvet sleeve of his coat!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I find myself wondering about him.

No rank is noted. So was he a gentleman ranker- a rich man's son reduced to soldiering by debts and bad company?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, lots of that.

"damned from here to eternity...."

Re: We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ain't it great!

Kipling's verse is seriously under-valued. Academe doesn't like him because he's so damn accessible.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I remember somewhere an argument in the British courts, whereby a man was trying to get out of paying a tax with the argument that he wasn't a gentleman, but a farmer. The courts decided that yes, he was a gentleman, based on the fact he kept hounds and horses and rode to the fox, something like that.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

it's interesting that the the gentlemanliness is insisted on. I suspect Mr Bunny insisted on it himself- whilst carousing with the farmers and tradesmen at the local pub.