Memorial in Lower Largo, Fife commemorating Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson d. 1845
Location
Church, Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland
Transcript
‘IN MEMORY OF / SIR PHILIP CHARLES HENDERSON CALDERWOOD DURHAM / OF FORDELL, POLTON AND LARGO, / ADMIRAL OF THE RED, / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE BATH / AND OF MILITARY MERIT OF FRANCE. / HE WAS BORN AT LARGO ON 29TH OF JULY 1763 / ENTERED THE ROYAL NAVY AT FOURTEEN, AND WAS MADE / POST CAPTAIN IN 1793, HIS ACTIVITY, GALLANTRY, JUDGE / MENT AND ZEAL WERE EXCELLED BY NONE IN HIS PROFES / SION AND HIS NUMEROUS CAPTURES AND SUCCESSES WERE / ACKNOWLEDGED BY MANY PUBLIC TESTIMONIALS. HE BEC / AME REAR ADMIRAL IN 1810 WITH COMMANDER IN CHIEF / IN THE WEST INDIES FROM 1813 TILL THE PEACE IN 1815, / AND HELD THE COMMAND AT PORTSMOUTH FROM 1837 / TO 1839, HE REPRESENTED QUEENSBURGH AND DEVIZES /IN SEVERAL PARLIAMENTS, BUT PASSED HIS LATER YEARS / CHIEFLY AT FORDEL. COURTED IN SOCIETY AND GENEROUS / LY SPENDING AN AMPLE FORTUNE, IN 1799 HE MARRIED / LADY CHARLOTTE MATILDA BRUCE, DAUGHTER OF CHARLES, / 5TH EARL OF ELGIN WHO DIED IN 1816 AND SECONDLY / IN 1817 ANN ELIZABETH, DAUGHTER AND HEIRESS OF / SIR JOHN HENDERSON OF FORDELL, BARONET, WHOM HE SUR / VIVED ONLY 3 MONTHS, HE DIED AT NAPLES ON THE / 21ST OF APRIL 1845 AND WAS INTERRED BENEATH THE / WEST AISLE OF THIS CHURCH. / ERECTED BY HIS GREAT NEPHEW / JAMES WOLFE MURRAY OF CRINGLETIE / 1849.'
Details
Date Erected: 1849
Vessel: HMS Anson
Event
Battle of Donegal
Event Date
1798
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Age:
Date of Death: 21/4/1845
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Red
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: William Richard O'Byrne, A Naval Biographical Dictionary, Philip Charles Durham. Peter Hore ‘Nelson’s Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials’ (Barnsley, 2015) p. 134.