Thomas Smith

In the Little Cloister of Westminster Abbey is a quaint marble wall tablet to Thomas Smith, who was educated at Westminster School and who died of smallpox. He is buried nearby. He was a son of the Reverend John Smith. The inscription reads:

In memory of Mr Tho. Smith of Elmly Lovat in ye county of Worcester & Bach. of Arts, late of Ch. Ch. Oxford, who through ye spotted vaile of the small pox, rendred a pure and unspotted soul to God. Expecting but not fearing death which ended his dayes March the 10 Anno Dom. 1663/4 aged 27. The virtues which in his short life were shown, have equall'd been by few, surpassed by none.