Memorial in Kingston Parish Church Jamaica commemorating Rear-Admiral William Brown d. 1814
Location
St Thomas Church, Kingston Jamaica, Rest of the World
Transcript
'In memory of William BROWN of Leesthorpe, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, a Rear Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief at Jamaica, where to the regret of the whole colony, he died on the 20th day of September 1814; in the fiftieth year of his age. He married first, Catherine, daughter of John Travers Esquire, a director of the East India Company; and secondly, Martha Vere, daughter of John Fothergill of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Esquire, who has erected this monument, as a faint record of her unbounded affection, and as a slender tribute, to his unshaken and acknowledged worth' [In Churchyard] 'Wm Brown, Esq., Rear Admiral of the Red, & Commander in Chief in Jamaica, OB 20 Sep 1814 aet 50'
Details
Type: Wall monument
Materials: Marble
People
Age: 49
Date of Death: 20/9/1814
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral of the Red
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: Christine Thomas, Flat D4, 111 Mt Butler Road, Hong Kong