First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Milne

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Assumed 1651

Inscription:

As recorded in the 19th century and partly visible- English is the translation and the inscription is in the Latin:

Charissimo fratri Thomee Milne, in urbe hac vita cum decore functo, anno Dom. 1651. iEtatis 22. Magister Milne, pastor Forgonensis posuit . T. M. Longam fama dabit vitam, cui fata negabant; Nec moritur, cui sic contigit oppetere.

To his dearest brother Thomas Milne, who lived and happily died in this place, as above, Mr. Milne, minister at Forgon erected this monument.
Short was his life; his fame shall laste for ay;
He liveth still, who happens thus to die.

Chariss. fratri Thomae Milne in vrbe hac propugnabat vita cum decore functo. Ann. Dom. 1651, aetat. suae 22.
Monumentum hoc posuit Magister Alex. Milne, Pastor Forgonensis.
Longam jama dabit vitam quam fala Negabant, nec moriter cvi contigit appetere.

To his dearest brother, Thomas Milne, who lost his life duly fighting ill defence of this Burgh, A.D. 1651, in the 22nd year of his age, this monument has been raised by Magister Alex Milne, Pastor of Forgan.
Fame shall give the long life which the Fates have denied; nor is it death thus to be snatched hence.

Source: Eminent Burgesses of Dundee - A.H. Millar 1887

Allegiance:

Scots Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Moss overgrown but parts of inscription still visible. Stone flaked in places.

Memorial Notes:

Low stone over grave lying roughly east-west in orientation. Thomas Milne died defending Dundee from George Monck's storming of the city on 1 September 1651.