George Walsh

In the east cloister of Westminster Abbey is a marble tablet to General George Walsh. The inscription reads:

Near this place are deposited the remains of George Walsh, Esq. late Lieutenant General of His Majesties Forces and Colonel of the 49th Regiment of Foot who died October the 23rd 1761 aged 73. The toils of life and pangs of death are o'er and care and pain and sickness are no more

He was a son of Richard Walsh of Louth in Ireland and his wife Mary (Bury) and had a long military career. He died unmarried and left his estate to his brother Anthony Walsh of Ardagh and his nephews Captains Anthony and Ralph Walsh.