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Thanks to Nancy Binder for the scan of John Brown's tombstone. She notes that this stone was much better preserved
and better cared for than any other in the graveyard
at Crathie Church, near Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The copy on the stone reads:
This stone is erected in Affectionate and Grateful
Remembrance of John Brown the Devoted and Faithful
Personal Attendant and Beloved Friend of Queen
Victoria In Whose Service he had been for 34 years.
Born at Crathienaird 8th December 1826, Died at
Windsor Castle 27th March 1883. “That friend on whose
fidelity you count, that friend given you by
circumstances over which you have no control was God’s
own gift.”
----- “Well done good and faithful servant. Thou
hast been faithful over a few things. I will make
thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy
of the Lord.”
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