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Latitude: 51.5013 / 51°30'4"N
Longitude: -0.0543 / 0°3'15"W
OS Eastings: 535144
OS Northings: 179837
OS Grid: TQ351798
Mapcode National: GBR JB.2Z9
Mapcode Global: VHGR1.0JMF
Plus Code: 9C3XGW2W+G7
Entry Name: Monument to Prince Lee Boo Approximately 10 Metres West of West Tower Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 17 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1385868
English Heritage Legacy ID: 471287
ID on this website: 101385868
Location: St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe, Southwark, London, SE16
County: London
District: Southwark
Electoral Ward/Division: Rotherhithe
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southwark
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Rotherhithe St Mary with All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Monument
SOUTHWARK
TQ3579 ST MARYCHURCH STREET
636-1/6/890 (North side)
Monument to Prince Lee Boo approx
10m W of W tower, Church of St Mary
GV II
Chest tomb with related headstone to Prince Lee Boo. Dated
1784. Yellow brick, rectangular tomb with Portland stone,
scalloped headstone at one end and inscribed Portland stone
ledger.
HISTORY: erected by the Hon. East India Company in memory of
Prince Lee Boo of the Pelew Islands, whose father had treated
the shipwrecked crew of the East Indiaman Antelope' with
kindness in 1738. Lee Boo returned to London with Captain
Wilson of the Antelope' who is commemorated on the headstone,
and died of smallpox. The inscription ends, "Stop, reader,
stop, let Nature shed a tear / A prince of mine, Lee Boo, lies
buried here".
Listing NGR: TQ3514479837
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