Memorial: M6482

Monument at Great Malvern to Lieutenant Thomas Woodyatt RN, d. 1841

Location

Priory Church of St Mary and St Michael, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / THOMAS WOODYATT ESQUIRE / OF HOLLY MOUNT IN THIS PARISH LATE A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY / ELDEST SURVIVING SON OF GEORGE WOODYATT OF WORCESTER MD BY HANNAH HIS WIFE / ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THOMAS FREEMAN OF SUCKLEY IN THIS COUNTY ESQUIRE / AT AN EARLY AGE HE ENTERED THE NAVY IN WHICH FOR SIXTEEN YEARS / HE WAS EMPLOYED IN ACTIVE AND VARIED SERVICE UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR / ENDUED WITH TALENTS OF NO COMMON ORDER / AND OF A DISPOSITION NATURALLY ARDENT AND LIBERAL / HE WAS FOREMOST IN PROMOTING EVERY SCHEME OF UTILITY AND IMPROVEMENT / WHICH COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELFARE OR ORNAMENT OF HIS NEIGHBOURHOOD / WARM HEARTED GENEROUS AND SINCERE / AND FREE IN A REMARKABLE DEGREE FROM THE BANE OF SELFISHNESS / HE SPARED NOT HIMSELF SO THAT HE MIGHT SERVE AND PROFIT OTHERS / HE MARRIED IN 1818 HARRIET / THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF MICHAEL BIDDULPH ESQUIRE / OF LEDBURY IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD AND COPTON HALL IN THIS COUNTY / BY WHOM HE HAD NO ISSUE / HE DIED GREATLY LAMENTED ON THE 6TH DAY OF JUNE 1841 / IN THE 50TH YEAR OF HIS AGE / AND HIS REMAINS WEREBY HIS OWN DESIRE INTERRED IN THE ADJOINING CHURCHYARD / THIS MEMORIAL OF AFFECTION WAS ERECTED / BY HIS SURVIVING WIDOW WHO IN MUCH SORROW DEDICATES THIS MARBLE / TO RECORD HER OWN BEREAVEMENT AND HER HUSBAND'S WORTH. / HIS WIDOW DIED ON THE 31ST JANUARY 1863 IN HER 88TH YEAR / AND WAS BURIED IN THE SAME VAULT. '

Details

Description: Stele with anthemion acroteria at the top. Above the inscription tablet, a relief of seated mourning female figure, beside a draped urn with a relief portrait of Woodyatt.
Type: Wall monument
Position: Aisle
Materials: White marble
Artists: Peter Hollins

Event

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Woodyatt, Thomas
Age: 50
Date of Death: 6/6/1841
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Commissioned Lieutenant 7 Feb 1811
Photographer: Norman Hammond

JSON

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