Memorial in Marlow, Buckinghamshire commemorating Vice-Admiral, Sir James Nicoll Morris d. 1830
Location
All Saints Church, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / VICE ADMIRAL SIR JAMES NICOLL MORRIS K.C.B. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS RESIDENCE THAMES BANK, GREAT MARLOW / THE 13TH APRIL 1830, AGED 66 YEARS. / HE WAS A SINCERE CHRISTIAN IN HIS BELIEF AND PRACTICE / BOTH BEING ALIKE DISTINGUISHED BY A SIMPLICITY AND SINGLENESS OF HEART / FOR WHICH HE WAS REMARKABLE / HIS BENEFICENCE WAS OF THAT SORT WHICH IS RATHER FELT THAN SEEN. / HE WAS A FIRM AND ZEALOUS FRIEND AND IN THE VARIOUS RELATIONS OF LIFE MOST EXEMPLARY / WHILST HIS STRICT SENSE OF HONOUR IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS SEVERAL / DUTIES RENDERED HIM UNIVERSALLY / RESPECTED, ESTEEMED AND REGRETTED. / HE MARRIED IN 1802 MARGARETTA SARAH / DAUGHTER OF THOMAS SOMERS COCKS ESQR. / WHO ERECTS THIS TABLET TO RECORD HIS WORTH / AND HER SUBMISSIVE BUT UNFEIGNED GRIEF / AND NOW LORD WHAT IS MY HOPE : TRULY MY HOPE IS EVEN IN THEE. PSALM 38: V. 8.'
Details
Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: 1830
Artists: John Ternouth
Vessel: HMS Colossus
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Age: 66
Date of Death: 13/4/1830
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964). J. K. Laughton, ‘Morris, Sir James Nicoll (1763?–1830)’, rev. Roger Morriss, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19306, accessed 31 May 2017]