The cross erected over the grave of Prince Christian Victor in the Pretoria Cathedral burial-ground is one of early Irish design with kerb of granite, and the railing is of metal from old British guns. The inscription records that the Prince was a grandson of Queen Victoria, and on the three sides of the base are inscribed texts with the various campaigns of the Prince:
| “I have fought a good fight.” | |
| Hazara | 1891 |
| Mirwagai | 1891 |
| Isazar | 1892 |
| “I have kept the faith.” | |
| Ashanti | 1895 |
| Soudan | 1898 |
| “I have finished my course.” | |
| Natal | 1889 |
| Transvaal | 1900 |
The designs have been carried out from suggestions made by Princess Christian.
The epilogue to Dryden’s “Tyrannic Love,” intended to be spoken by Eleanor Gwyn, when she was to be carried off by the pall-bearers, closes as follows:
As for my epitaph, when I am gone,
I’ll trust no poet, but will write my own:
Here Nellie lies, who though she lived a slattern,
Yet died a princess, acting in St. Cath’rine.
Thus we have the real character of the actress, and the character she represented in the play.
This inscription on a Connecticut tombstone: “Here lies the body of Jonathan Richardson, who never sacrificed his reason at the altar of Superstition’s god, and who never believed that Jonah swallowed a whale.”