LAWRENCE EARNSHAW
MOTTRAM
DIED MAY 12th 1767
AND WAS BURIED IN THE
ADJOINING CHURCHYARD.

A SELF TAUGHT GENIUS AND OF HUMBLE BIRTH HIS TALENTS AS AN INVENTOR ANTICIPATED BY MANY YEARS THE DISCOVERIES OF OTHER EMINENT MEN.

BY HIS SKILL IN GEOMETRY
AND
ACOUIREMENTS AS A MECHANICIAN
HE DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED
AN ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK
REGISTERING THE REVOLUTIONS
OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES AND
THE FLOW OF THE TIDES.

A CENTURY AFTER HIS DECEASE
THE ADMIRERS OF HIS GENIUS
AND WORTH
ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL.
A.D. 1867



JOHN EATON
ASHTON