Memorial: M1720

Monument in Butleigh, Somerset, commemorating Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, d. 1814

Location

Butleigh, Somerset, England

Transcript

[North Face] 'IN MEMORY OF / SIR SAMUEL HOOD / BARONET / KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH / AND NOMINATED GRAND CROSS THEREOF / KNIGHT OF ST FERDINAND AND OF MERIT / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE SWORD / VICE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE / AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET / IN THE EAST INDIES' [West Face]'AN OFFICER OF THE HIGHEST DISTINCTION / AMONGST THE ILLUSTRIOUS MEN / WHO RENDERED THEIR OWN AGE / THE BRIGHTEST PERIOD / IN THE NAVAL HISTORY / OF THEIR COUNTRY.' [South Face]'THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED / TO THEIR LATE COMMANDER /BY THE ATTACHMENT AND REVERENCE / OF BRITISH OFFICERS / OF WHOM MANY WERE / HIS ADMIRING FOLLOWERS / IN THESE AWFUL SCENES OF WAR / IN WHICH WHILE THEY CALL FORTH / THE GRANDEST QUALITIES OF HUMAN NATURE / IN HIM LIKEWISE GAVE OCCASION / FOR THE EXERCISE OF ITS MOST AMIABLE VIRTUES / HE DIED AT MADRAS DECEMBER 24TH 1814.'

Details

Description: Column surmounted by a naval crown.

Type: Monument
Date Erected: 1831

People

Hood, Samuel
Age: 52
Date of Death: 24/12/1814
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the White
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: The site was once part of Butleigh Wootton estate - land that Alexander Hood (Sir Samuel's brother) acquired when he married Miss Periam of Butleigh Wootton in 1792.
Bibliography: Ludovic Kennedy 'Nelson and his Captains' (London 1975) p. 341.
Photographer: Anne Michell

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters