The memorial to Hugh Stowell Gill is mounted on an interior wall of the church of St. Andrew. The quote from Wisdom 3:1 is etched at the foot of the Memorial Tablet.
The full inscription of the Memorial is shown below:
In Loving Memory of
HUGH STOWELL GILL, M.A.,
FOR 17 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH
AND ARCHDEACON OF MAN.
BORN MARCH 26TH 1830. DIED MAY 13TH 1912.
AND OF HIS WIFE
MARGARET,
DAUGHTER OF JOHN LLEWELLYN,
FORMERLY HIGH BAILIFF OF PEEL.
BORN FEBRUARY 8TH 1832. DIED AUGUST 3RD 1912.
“THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD.”
WISDOM. III.I.
Hugh Stowell Gill was an Anglican priest and the Archdeacon of the See of Sodor and Man from 1895 until his death on 13 May 1912.
He was born in the south of the Island at Castletown on 26 March 1830 into an ecclesiastical family. His father was the Reverend William Gill and his mother was Anne, the daughter of the Reverend Hugh Stowell.
He was educated at Kings Williams College on the Island and at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1853 and became a curate at St. Luke’s, Baldwin on the Island. Gill then had incumbencies at Rushen and Malew. He was appointed the Rural Dean of Castletown in 1878, a post he held until his appointment as Archdeacon.
John Llewellyn father of Anne, Hugh’s wife, was high Bailiff of Peel between 1820 and 1840. The office of High Bailiff was created under an Act of 1777 – “it hath been judged expedient to erect a new Jurisdiction in each of the four several Market Towns of this Isle for the Hearing and Determination of Matters of Debt where the Demand doth not Answer to the Sum of forty Shillings:”
The Wisdom of Solomon is a book is in the ‘apocrypha’ which were published in the original 1611 King James Bible.
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