
Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Josaphat Davy Hardingham d. 1810
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
[East side] 'GEORGIANA / WIDOW OF / JOSAPHAT DAVY HARDINGHAM esq / OF / HMS PERLEN R.N. / WHO DIED IN THE PRIME OF LIFE / ON FOREIGN SERVICE / 29 SEPTEMBER 1810 / AND SINCE WIDOW OF JOHN HAXBY esq / OF WORTHING SUSSEX / ...BORN 17TH JANUARY 1786 / DIED 31 JULY 1836 /...AGE 50.'[South and West sides illegible] [North side] 'ALSO / IN LOVING MEMORY OF / GEORGE GATTON HARDINGHAM / OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE / BARRISTER AT LAW, / HER ONLY CHILD, / WHO DIED AT SOUTHSEA 8TH JANUARY 1895 / AGED 35 YEARS'
Details
Description: Urn on plinth.
Type: Monument
Materials: Portland stone
Type: Monument
Materials: Portland stone
People
Hardingham, Josaphat Davy
Age:
Date of Death: 29/09/1810
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Purser
Organisation: Royal Navy
Age:
Date of Death: 29/09/1810
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Purser
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: 'Perlen' various spellings (Pearl) 5th rate, 38 Danish, Captured at Copenhagen 7 September 1807. Broken up 1832. Hardingham is on the ship's pay book as a purser. He was sent to Antigua Hospital and discharged dead 29 September 1810. 48 men died during late summer and early autumn that year. The ship's commander Lieutenant Nicholas Bell was 'Invalided for a colder climate'. This suggests that Hardingley died of a tropical disease such as yellow fever.
Bibliography: ADM 37/2634
Photographer: Lucy Saint, Eleanor Baugh ©RMG
Bibliography: ADM 37/2634
Photographer: Lucy Saint, Eleanor Baugh ©RMG