Memorial: M1827

Wall tablet at Chertsey, Surrey commemorating Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Hotham RN, d. 1833

Location

St Peter's Church, Chertsey, Surrey, England

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF / THE HONOURABLE SIR HENRY HOTHAM / OF SILVERLANDS IN THIS PARISH YOUNGEST SON OF BEAUMONT LORD HOTHAM / VICE ADMIRAL OF THE RED, / KNIGHT COMMANDER OF / THE MOST HONOURABLE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH, / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF / THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE / AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVAL FORCES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN / WHO DIED AT MALTA APRIL 19TH 1833 AGED 56 YEARS / HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED AT THE PLACE OF HIS DECEASE / WHERE IN TESTIMONY OF HIS HIGH PROFESSIONAL CHARACTER, / MERITORIOUS PUBLIC SERVICES AND EMINENT PRIVATE VIRTUES, / A MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF HIS FLEET'

Details

Description: Egg and dart moulding, anthemion motifs, sword, belt and orders of knighthood carved above.

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Gallery stairs
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Northumberland,

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Hotham, Henry
Age: 56
Date of Death: 19/4/1833
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the Red
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: J. K. Laughton, ‘Hotham, Sir Henry (1777–1833)’, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13850, accessed 7 June 2017]
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1995

JSON

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