Memorial: M1045

Memorial in Portsmouth Cathedral commemorating Sir John Kempthorne d. 1679

Location

Cathedral of St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'Here lyeth Interred the Body of Sr Iohn / Kempthorne Knight who who had the Honour / to wear severall Flags in severall com / mands in His Majesty's Service, and hath / fought severall Battles at sea for his / King and Country: and dyed Commissio / ner of His Majesty's Navy at Portsmouth / the 19th day of October 1679, aged 59 yeares. / Heare beneath this Stone doth lye, / As much Valour as could dye, / Who in his life did Vigour give, /To as much Justice as could live, / But Death (which ne'er could him dismay), / Unkindly snatcht him hence away.'

Details

Description: Wall tablet, the inscription flanked by pillars, a coat of arms at the top in a cartouche, below the pediment.
Type: Wall memorial
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Mary Rose

People

Kempthorne, John
Age: 59
Date of Death: 19/10/1679
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Arms are on widow's tomb in All Hallows, Barking, London.
Bibliography: G.A. Kempthorne 'Mariner's Mirror' xii (1926) pp. 309-10; P Clissold 'Ships and Monuments in the Solent Area', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 58, p. 207, 208 (Greenwich, 1972).
Recorder: Timothy Wilson 1979
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters