Memorial: M4292

Wall monument at Stone, Staffordshire commemorating Admiral John Jarvis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, d. 1823.

Location

St Michael's Church, Stone, Staffordshire, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY / OF / JOHN JERVIS / EARL OF ST. VINCENT BARON JERVIS / OF MEAFORD IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD, KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER OF / THE BATH, AND OF THE PORTUGUESE ORDER OF THE TOWER AND SWORD / ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET AND GENERAL OF THE MARINES. / HE WAS THE SECOND AND YOUNGEST SON OF SWYFEN JERVIS OF MEAFORD ESQ / AND WAS BORN ON 20TH JANUARY 1735 / AT THE EARLY AGE OF THIRTEEN HE ENTERED THE ROYAL NAVY AND REMAINED / DURING A LONG AND ACTIVE LIFE, ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST ORNAMENTS / IN 1759 ACTING AS COMMANDER OF THE PORCUPINE / HE ASSISTED IN TAKING QUEBEC AND IN THE CONQUEST OF CANADA / IN APRIL 1782, WHEN CAPTAIN OF THE FOUDROYANT, HE / SEPARATELY FROM THE REST OF THE FLEET, BOARDED AND CAPTURED LA PAGESE OF 74 GUNS. / BEARING THE FLAG OF A FRENCH ADMIRAL / THE MODEST TERMS IN WHICH HIS DESPATCH WAS WRITTEN WERE FINELY CONTRASTED / WITH THE GLOWING EULOGY PRONOUNCED ON HIS BY ADMIRAL BARRINGTON HIS COMMANDING / OFFICER AND HIS MERIT WAS STAMPED BY THE GRACIOUS APPROBATION OF HIS SOVEREIGN / WHO CREATED HIM A KNIGHT OF THE BATH / APPOINTED TO COMMAND IN 1793 OF THE SQUADRON SENT TO THE WEST INDIES HE AFFECTED / IN CO-OPERATION WITH GENERAL SIR CHARLES GREY / A CORDIAL UNION OF THE SERVICES, BEFORE UNEXAMPLED / AND BY THEIR COMBINED EFFORT / THE ISLANDS OF MARTINIQUE, GUADELOUPE, ST. LUCIE AND MARIE GALENTE / WERE SPEEDILY REDUCED / THE GRATITUDE OF THE NATION WAS EXPRESSED BY VOTES IN BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT / IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND, AND THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL PECULIARLY INTERESTED IN / THE PROSPERITY OF THE WEST INDIES, PRESENTED HIM WITH THEIR FREEDOM / IN 1795 HE WAS APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN THE MEDITERRANEAN / DURING THIS PERIOD A SPIRIT OF MUTINY DISORGANISED OUR FLEETS AT HOME / BUT WAS CRUSHED IN ITS INFANCY IN THE FLEET UNDER HIS COMMAND / BY HIS UNPARALLELED DISCIPLINE / ON THE EVER MEMORABLE 14TH FEBRUARY 1797 HE ACHIEVED OFF CAPE ST. VINCENT / WITH A FAR INFERIOR FORCE THAT CONQUEST OVER THE SPANISH FLEET / WHICH CARRIED HIS RENOWN TO THE GREATEST HEIGHT AND DESTROYED THE EFFECT OF / ONE OF THE MOST FORMIDABLE COMBINATIONS OF THE ENEMY EVER DIRECTED AGAINST / THE POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN/HAVING BEFORE THIS PERIOD BEEN, FOR HIS FORMER SERVICES RAISED TO / THE PEERAGE BY THE TITLE OF BARON JERVIS / NOW THE JOYFUL ACCLAIMATIONS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN/THE EXPRESSIONS OF GRATITUDE BY NUMEROUS CORPORATIONS / WHICH PRESENTED HIM WITH THEIR FREEDOM / THE THANKS OF EACH HOUSE OF THE BRITISH AND IRISH LEGISLATURE / RECEIVED THEIR TRIUMPHANT SANCTION FROM THE ACT OF AN APPROVING SOVEREIGN / BY WHOM HE WAS PROMOTED TO THE DIGNITY OF AN EARL AND VISCOUNT BY THE TITLE OF / THE NAME AND PLACE WHICH FORMED THE SCENE OF HIS GLORY / IN 1801 HE WAS APPOINTED FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY / BY HIS NOMINATION WERE REALIZED THE ADVANTAGES WHICH WERE EXPECTED / FROM HIS EXPERIENCES AS A NAVAL CAPTAIN / AND THE PUBLIC INTERESTS WERE PROTECTED BY THE REFORMS WHICH AS / A PATRIOT STATESMEN HE EFFECTED IN THE CIVIL DEPARTMENTS OF THE NAVY / HE INSTITUTED THE MEMORABLE COMMISSION OF NAVAL ENQUIRY / A MEASURE WHICH DREW UPON HIM THE HATRED AND OPPOSITION OF / A HOST OF PLACEMEN AND PENSIONERS, BUT WHICH EMINENTLY CHARACTERISTIC OF / HIS OWN PURITY, INTEGRITY AND LOVE OF ECONOMY WAS ADMIRABLY CALCULATED / TO DETECT AND PREVENT, FRAUD, PECULATION AND PROFUSION IN / THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FINANCES OF HIS COUNTRY. / IN 1806 HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE CHANNEL FLEET AND EXERCISED THAT COMMAND TIL 1807 / IN 1809 PORTUGAL GAVE HIM THE GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER OF THE TOWER AND THE SWORD. / IN 1814 HE WAS MADE GENERAL OF THE MARINES. / IN 1821, SEVENTY THREE YEARS AFTER HIS ENTRANCE INTO THE SERVICE / HE WAS APPOINTED ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET / HAVING ATTAINED HIS 89TH YEAR HE EXPIRED THE 13TH MARCH 1823 / IN FULL POSSESSION OF ALL HIS FACULTIES / HE MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN MARTHA, DAUGHTER OF / THE LATE RT. HON SIR THOMAS PARKER, KNIGHT LORD CHIEF BARON OF THE EXCHEQUER / BUT LEFT NO ISSUE / HIS MORTAL REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED IN THE ADJACENT FAMILY MAUSOLEUM.' 'WITHIN THIS MAUSOLEUM / LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF / ADMIRAL JOHN JERVIS / EARL OF ST VINCENT / 1735-1823'

Details

Description: Bust of St Vincent above inscription flanked by naval trophies, arms below.

Type: Wall monument
Position: West wall nave
Artists: Francis Leggatt Chantrey
Vessel: HMS Victory

Event

Battle of Cape St Vincent

Event Date

1797

Event Category

1793-1802 French Revolutionary War

People

Jervis, John
Age: 89
Date of Death: 13/3/1823
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Buried in mausoleum in churchyard DNB says born 9th Jan 1734/5. Earl of St Vincent (1734-1823).
Recorder: A.J. Richardson 1980

JSON

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    "artists": "Francis Leggatt Chantrey",
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