Wall monument in St Margaret’s Church, Kings Lynn, Norfolk commemorating Captain Sir William Hoste RN d. 1828, Rear Admiral William George Legge Hoste, RN d. 1868 and Theodore Hoste RN d.1835
Location
St Margaret's Church, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / SIR WILLIAM HOSTE BART. R.N. K.G.B. K.M.T. / SECOND SON OF THE REV. DIXON HOSTE RECTOR OF / CODWICK AND TITTERSHALL AND MARGARET HIS WIFE / BORN ON THE 26 OF AUGUST 1780 AT INGOLDISTHORPE / IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK. DIED ON THE 6TH DECEMBER / 1828 IN LONDON. HE BEGAN HIS NAVAL CAREER / UNDER LORD NELSON HE WAS PRESENT AT THE BATTLE / OF THE NILE AND FOR HIS GALLANT CONDUCT IN THAT / GLORIOUS VICTORY WAS APPOINTED TO THE COMMAND OF / THE MUTINE BRIG. HIS MOST BRILLIANT ACTION WAS THE / FAMOUS VICTORY OFF THE ISLE OF LISSA MARCH 13TH / 1811 WHEN IN COMMAND OF THE BRITISH SQUADRON OF / THREE FRIGATES AND A BRIG HE DEFEATED THE ENTIRE / FRANCO-VENETIAN SQUADRON CONSISTING OF SIX FRIGATES AND / FIVE SMALLER SAIL. IN 1814 WITH ONLY THE 36-GUN FRIGATE / BACCHANTE AND THE 18-GUN BRIG-SLOOP SARACEN HE / BESIEGED THE FORTRESSES OF GATTARO AND RAGUSA ON / THE COAST OF DALMATIA THE FORMER MOUNTING 90 / GUNS AND THE LATTER 134 BOTH OF WHICH SURRENDERED / IN 10 DAYS CANNONADE. HIS HEALTH FELL A VICTIM / TO HIS CONSTANT LABOURS AND ANXIETIES WHICH ENDED / ONLY AT THE PEACE OF EUROPE. HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER / WAS OF SUCH BEAUTY AND EXCELLENCE AS TO / RAISE FEELINGS OF THE WARMEST LOVE / AND ADMIRATION IN THE HEARTS OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM.' [Below] 'IN MEMORY OF / THE LATE / REAR ADMIRAL SIR WILLM / GEOR.E LEGGE HOSTE; BART / ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE / BORN MARCH 19TH 1818 / DIED SEPTR. 10 1868 / ALSO OF / THEODORE ORFORD / RAPHAEL HOSTE; HIS BROTHER / BORN JULY 1 1819, DIED APRIL 15TH 1835, ON BOARD H.M. FRIGATE / VOLAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN / CUT OFF LIKE A FLOWER.'
Details
Type: Wall monument
Position: North side of nave
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS ‘Mutine’, HMS ‘Greyhound’ HMS ‘Eurydice’, HMS ‘Amphion’, HMS ‘Bacchante’; HMS ‘Ringdove’, HMS ’Spiteful’, HMS ’Spartan’, HMS 'Neptune’; HM Frigate ‘Volage'
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War; 1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Age: 48
Date of Death: 6/12/1828
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hoste, William George Legge
Age: 50
Date of Death: 10/9/1868
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hoste, Theodore Orford Raphael
Age: 15
Date of Death: 15/4/1835
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Rear Admiral William Legge George Hoste, son of Captain Sir William Hoste, born 19 March 1818, entered Navy on 1st August 1830. Succeeded as 2nd Baronet Hoste in 1828, after the death of his father.
Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996) p. 66.
Recorder: David Saunders 1993
Photographer: B. Tomlinson