Alemayehu’s memorial in Rugby School Chapel

Alemayehu’s memorial in the chapel of Rugby school, where he studied from September 1874 to 1877.

Thanks to the Antigone Journal for translating the Latin:

Sacred to the memory of Alemayehu of Abyssinia, only son of Tewodros and Tiruwork, who spent three years at this school, after spending eight years numbered among the boys and girls of Thomas Jex-Blake, Doctor of Divinity. He succumbed to pleurisy, that deceitful disease, dying of the same illness that his mother once did. With the most uncorrupted character, and of a kindness that befitted a prince, he was mourned by every single Rugbeian.

Queen Victoria ordered that the bones of the boy be placed by the royal ashes at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

Born 23 April 1861.
Died 14 November 1879.

Where: Rugby School, Rugby CV22 5EH – map

Last spotted: April 27, 2024