Memorial: M502

Wall tablet in Bath Abbey, Bath commemorating Captain William Clarke Jervoise d. 1837

Location

Bath Abbey, Bath, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM CLARKE JERVOISE ESQR. / A CAPTAIN IN THE BRITISH NAVY / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECR 6TH 1837 / AGED 48. / ABOUNDING IN ALL THOSE QUALITIES THAT CONSTITUTE A CHRISTIAN AND A GENTLEMAN, / HE FULFILLED THE VARIOUS OBLIGATIONS OF A SON AND A BROTHER, / LESS AS A DUTY, THAN AS A LABOUR OF LOVE. / KIND, AFFECTIONATE AND GENEROUS, / FRIENDSHIP WITH HIM/WAS MORE THAN A NAME, / IT WAS A TIE HE HALLOWED, / A BAND HE NEVER BROKE. / POSSESSING THE ABILITIES OF A SEAMAN / IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DISTINGUISHING / CHARACTERISTICS OF AN OFFICER. / HE WAS EQUALLY AN HONOR TO HIS COUNTRY / AND AN ORNAMENT TO HIS PROFESSION. / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED / AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS WORTH AND EXCELLENCE / AND IN TESTIMONY / TO THE LOVE AND AFFECTION OF HIS BROTHER /(CAPTAIN GEORGE GOSLING OF THE BRITISH NAVY) / AND THE LASTING SORROW / OF HIS AFFLICTED RELATIVES AND FRIENDS'

Details

Description: Naval trophies protruding from behind the inscription tablet.

Type: Wall tablet
Position: North side of Nave

People

Jervoise, William Clarke
Age: 48
Date of Death: 6/12/1837
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1986
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters