Wall tablet at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich commemorating the officers and men who died in the wreck of HMS ‘Orpheus’ 1863
Location
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY / OF THE OFFICERS AND 166 PETTY OFFICERS SEAMEN AND MARINES / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WRECK OF / HER MAJESTY'S SHIP ORPHEUS / ON THE MANUKAU BAR, NEW ZEALAND ON THE 7TH FEBRUARY 1863. / COMMODORE W. FARQUHARSON BURNETT C.B. / COMMANDER ROBERT H. BURTON. / LIEUTENANTS W.F.W. MUDGE AND ARTHUR JEKYLL, / MASTER W. D. STRONG. / LIEUTENANT EDWARD E. HILL R.M.A. / CHAPLAIN THE REV. CHARLES B. HASLEWOOD M.A. / CHIEF ENGINEER SAMUEL STEPHENS. / SECRETARY ASSIST-PAYMASTER W.H.P. GILHAM. / ASSIST-SURGEON JAMES CLARKSON. / SECOND MASTER W.H. TAYLOR. / MIDSHIPMEN A.R. MALLOCK, T.H. BROUGHTON AND GEORGE H. VERNER. / CLERK H.N. AYLEN. / MASTERS ASSISTANT JOHN H. TOZER. / ENGINEER JOHN H. ADAMS. ASSIST-ENGINEERS JOHN VICERY. E.J. MILLER, W. ADAMSON AND G.F. GOSSAGE. / GUNNER, W. HUDSON. / ALSO OF THE UNDER-MENTIONED SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE WRECK / WHO HAVE SINCE DIED ON DUTY: / LIEUTENANTS, CHARLES HILL AND DUKE YOUNGE / MIDSHIPMEN, BERNAL FIELDING AND HENRY BARKLY. / ERECTED AS A TOKEN OF ADMIRATION OF THE DISCIPLINE / AND HEROISM DISPLAYED BY ALL ON BOARD / 1882'
Details
Description: A marble inscription tablet with a bronze relief depicting the wreck inset above. Type: Wall tablet Materials: Marble, bronze Vessel: HMS Orpheus
People
Adams, John H. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Adamson, W. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Aylen, H. N. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Clerk Organisation: Royal Navy Broughton, T. H. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Burnett, W. Farquharson Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Commodore RN Organisation: Royal Navy Burton, Robert H Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy Clarkson, James Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Surgeon Organisation: Royal Navy Gilham, W. H. P. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Secretary Assistant Paymaster Organisation: Royal Navy Gossage, G. F. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Haslewood, Charles B. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Chaplain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Hill, Edward E. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RMA Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Hudson, W. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Gunner RN Organisation: Royal Navy Jekyll, Arthur Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Mallack, A. R. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Miller, E. J. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Mudge, W. F. W. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Stephens, Samuel Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Strong, W. D. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master RN Organisation: Royal Navy Taylor, W. H. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Second Master Organisation: Royal Navy Tozer, John H. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master's assistant Organisation: Royal Navy Verner, George H. Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Vicery, John Age: Date of Death: 7/2/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn, Norfolk commemorating John Dyker d. 1868
Location
St Nicholas’ Chapel, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England
Transcript
In Memory of / John Dyker, / eldest Son of / John Dyker / and / Inue Them, / of King’s Lynn / who was drowned off / Prawle Point, Devonshire. / December 10th 1868 / Aged 16 Years.
Details
Type: Plaque Materials: Brass
People
Dyker, John Age: 16 Date of Death: 10/12/1868 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
Wall tablet in Radnage, Buckinghamshire commemorating Lieutenant Henry John Phillimore RN, d. 1872,
Location
St Mary's Church, Radnage, Buckinghamshire, England
Transcript
'TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF / HENRY JOHN PHILLIMORE, / LIEUTENANT R.N. / ELDEST SON OF THE REVD. GEORGE PHILLIMORE M.A. / RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, / & HARRIETTE MARIA, HIS WIFE / BORN SEP.2ND 1845. DIED FEB. 21ST 1872, / FROM THE EFFECTS OF FEVER / WITH WHICH HE WAS ATTACKED / WHILST SERVING IN H.M.S. WOLVERINE, / ON THE EAST AFRICAN COAST. / 'LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR / AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: Chancel South Wall Materials: Marble Artists: John Forsyth & Son Vessel: HMS Wolverine
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Africa
People
Phillimore, Henry John Age: 26 Date of Death: 21/2/1872 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Dossier Recorder: Sheila Thompson; The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Tomb at St Nicholas’s Church, Hurst, Berkshire commemorating Vice-Admiral Thomas Dundas d. 1841
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Hurst, Berkshire, England
Details
Description: Tomb within iron railings. Type: Tomb Position: Churchyard Vessel: HMS Naiad
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Dundas, Thomas Age: 76 Date of Death: 1841 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Also Lady Dundas died at Reading, their daughter Elizabeth Wood 1837-1878, Mary Dundas died at Reading 1818. Bibliography: T.A. Heathcote, Nelson's Trafalgar Captains and their battles: a Biographical and Historical Dictionary, (Yorkshire, 2005)
Gravestone in Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico, commemorating Commander O. B. Carey-Brenton, RN, d. 1921
Location
Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico, Rest of the World
Details
Type: Gravestone
People
Carey-Brenton, Reginald Orme Brenton Age: 72 Date of Death: 21/4/1921 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Commander Royal Navy, superintendent for formation of Mexican Navy 1891. DOSSIER. Born 22/12/1848. Retired to Mexico where he worked as a missionary.
Gravestone at All Saints Church, Hastings commemorating smuggler Joseph Swain d. 1821
Location
All Saints Church, Hastings, East Sussex, England
Transcript
‘This Stone / Sacred to the memory of / JOSEPH SWAIN Fisherman / was created at the expense of / the members of the friendly Society of Hastings / in commiseration of his cruel and untimely / death and as a record of the pblic indignation / at the needless and sanguinary violence of / which he was the unoffending Victim. He / was shot by Geo. England, one of the / Sailors employ’d in the Coast blockade / Service in open day on the 13th March 1821 and almost instantly expir’d in the / twenty / -ninth year of his age, leaving a Widow and / five small children to lament his loss.’
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Swain, Joseph Age: 29 Date of Death: 13/3/1821 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Fishern Organisation:
Extra
Notes: Shot on the beach by an officer of the coast blockade instituted to stop smuggling.
Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk commemorating Captain Hyde Parker, RN d. 1854
Location
Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN HYDE PARKER / OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAM FRIGATE FIREBRAND / (ELDEST SON OF VICE ADMIRAL HYDE PARKER C.B.) / WHO FELL GLORIOUSLY WHILE LEADING ON HIS MEN / TO THE STORM OF A RUSSIAN FORTIFICATION AT THE / SULINA MOUTH OF THE DANUBE, JULY 8TH 1854. AGED 29 YEARS / THE BRITISH BURIAL GROUND OF PERA OF CONSTANTINOPLE / HOLDS ALL OF HIM THAT COULD DIE, BUT SO LONG AS A GREAT / INTELLECT, A HIGH AND SPOTLESS CHARACTER AND DEVOTION / TO HIS COUNTRY, EVEN TO THE DEATH CAN COMMAND / LOVE AND RESPECT, SO LONG WILL HIS NAME LIVE / IN THE FOREMOST RANKS OF THOSE WHO DIED / TOO EARLY FOR ALL SAVE THEIR OWN FAME. / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS, / SEAMAN AND MARINES OF H.M.S. FIREBRAND / THE LAST SAD TRIBUTE OF THEIR HONOUR AND AFFECTION.'
Details
Description: Above, a semicircular carving of a foul anchor within a wreath of oak and laurel branches, crossed swords and flags behind, surrounded by inlaid laurel branches. A dolphin and trident on each side of the inscription tablet. Architectural surround carved with egg and dart mouldings and acanthus leaves. Type: Wall tablet Position: Sanctuary Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Firebrand
Event
Crimea War
Event Date
1853-1856
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Parker, Hyde Age: 29 Date of Death: 8/7/1854 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969 Photographer: P. Lacey
Memorial in Étampes, Parc du Jeurre, France commemorating Captain James Cook RN d. 1779
Location
Étampes, Parc du Jeurre, France, Rest of the World
Details
Description: A relief bust of Cook in a niche in the plinth, an urn above. Type: Memorial Artists: Hubert Robert, Augustin Pajou
People
Cook, James Age: 51 Date of Death: 14/2/1779 Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Decorative carving by Mezieres, commissioned by Jean-Joseph, Marquis de Laborde (1724-94). Sketches and model 1787. Monument originally at his garden at Méréville. Bust in relief a later replacement. Design based on Roman funary altars and originally stood in a small pavillion. Tomb recently enclosed in glass. See SCU0012. Bibliography: James David Draper, Guilhem Scherf 'Augustin Pajou Royal Sculptor 1730-1809' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1997); Ed. James Stevens Curl 'Kensal Green Cemetery: the origins and development of the cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London 1824-2001' (Chichester, 2001) pp.11-12.
