Wall tablet in St Clement’s Church, Sandwich, Kent commemorating Rear-Admiral George Sayer RN d. 1831
Location
St Clement's Church, Sandwich, Kent, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE SAYER / COMPANION OF / THE MOST HONOURABLE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH, / HE WAS ACTIVELY EMPLOYED MOSTLY ON FOREIGN STATIONS / FROM 1788 UNTIL 1817 / AND DURING THE LATTER PERIOD OF HIS SERVICES / THE CHIEF NAVAL COMMAND / OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVAL FORCES / IN THE EAST INDIES / TWICE DEVOLVED ON HIM AS COMMODORE. / BORN IN THIS PARISH ON THE 15TH NOVEMBER 1773 / DIED THE 29TH APRIL 1831 / AND INTERRED IN THE FAMILY VAULT IN THE ADJOINING CHURCHYARD / HE WAS THE ELDEST SON OF BENJAMIN SAYER ESQ / WHO WAS 30 YEARS COLLECTOR OF HIS MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS / AT THIS TOWN AND AT DEAL'
Details
Description: Draped urn and naval trophies above inscription tablet
Type: Wall tablet Position: South aisle, North wall Materials: Marble Artists: H. Spelt
People
Sayer, George Age: c. 58 years Date of Death: 29/4/1831 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall monument at St Lawrence’s Church, Beeston, Norfolk commemorating Henry Hulton, First Commissioner of Customs in America, d. 1790
Location
St Lawrence's Church, Beeston, Norfolk, England
Transcript
'Henry Hulton Esq. First Commissioner of His Majesty's Customs in America; who lived in a regular performance of the Divine, Social and Personal Duties and died lamented by his family and friends in the 14th Feby 1790 aged 59. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Isaac Preston of this Parish; who died at Andover 15 April 1805 aged 66'
Details
Type: Wall monument Position: East wall of chancel, south of altar Materials: marble
People
Hulton, Henry Age: 59 Date of Death: 14/2/1790 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Commissioner of Customs Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Henry Hulton was First Commissioner of His Majesty's Customs & Excise at Boston Massachusetts tasked with collecting George III’s taxes from his American subjects at the time of the 'Boston Tea Party' in 1773. This protest escalated into the American Revolution (1765-1783). His son Thomas, changed his name to Preston, when he inherited Beeston Hall and estate in 1805 from his maternal uncle.
Another wall tablet dedicated to Henry and Elizabeth Hulton is located in the west entrance lobby of St Mary’s Church, Andover, Hampshire.
Memorial at Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania commemorating Lieutenant Alexander Karley Woodrow, RN, d. 1880
Location
Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of / A K Woodrow Esq, R.N. / late Snr Lieut. H.M.S. Ruby / born 16th June 1850 died 12th August 1880' Other side 'Life's uncertain, death is sure / sin's the wound and Christ the cure / Erected by his sorrowing parents'
Details
Type: Coped stone Materials: Granite? Vessel: HMS Ruby
People
Woodrow, Alexander Karley Age: 31 Date of Death: 12/8/1880 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in St Michael’s Church, Stokenham, Devon commemorating Lieutenant Thomas Holdsworth RN d. 1802
Location
St Michael's Church, Stokenham, Devon, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the Memory / of THOMAS WESTON HOLDSWORTH, / Lieutenant in HIS MAJESTY'S Navy, / Son of ARTHUR and ELIZABETH HOLDSWORTH, / of Widdicombe, / who departed this Life the 22.d Day of October, 1802; / in the nineteenth Year of his Age.'
Details
Description: Sarcophagus-shaped tablet of white marble on a dark grey slate ground. The pediment rests on a fluted cornice; below it is a bolection moulding which runs all round the sarcophagus, including the feet. The ground is supported on two white marble discs.
Wall tablet in the Garrison Chapel, Portsmouth commemorating Major Thomas Oldfield RM d. 1799
Location
Garrison Chapel, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'Sacred / to the Memory of / Major THOMAS OLDFIELD / of the Marines / who from early youth distinguished himself / under several Commanders and especially / in AMERICA and LORD CORNWALLIS / until / honored even by his Enemies in whose Front he fell / he sacrificed that Life / which he had so ofter hazarded in the Service of / his country / at the siege of ACRE in SYRIA / April VII A.D. MDCCXXCIX / AET XLIII / This Monument / was erected as a testimony / of sincere Affection and Gratitude / by the Widow and Son of / Lieutenant JOHN NICHOLS OLDFIELD / of the Marines / the loving and beloved brother of the above / who died April IX A.D. MDCCXCIII / AET XLII / and was interred at ALVERSTOKE'
Details
Type: Wall tablet
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Oldfield, John Nichols Age: 42 Date of Death: 9/4/1793 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RM Organisation: Royal Marines Oldfield, Thomas Age: 43 Date of Death: 7/4/1799 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Major RM Organisation: Royal Marines
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Notes: Thomas Oldfield served in the attack on Teneriffe in 1797, and the battle of the Nile 1798. Buried with military honours by the French having died as a prisoner of war. Died of wounds received at St Jean d'Acre. John Nichols Oldfield is buried at Alverstoke. Bibliography: 'Antiques Trade Gazette' 6 March 1999. (sale of profile portrait of Thomas Oldfield). Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Memorial in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno, Italy commemorating Thomas Oddy and Charles Stewart d. 1793
Location
Old English Cemetery, Via Giuseppe Verdi, Livorno, Italy, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Thomas Oddy / and Charles Stewart / This monument / is erected / the British Factory / to commemorate the/death of two English / sailors, who lost their / lives by the bursting of / a cannon on board the Constantine, Captain St Barbe / in celebrating the birth-day of our Royal Sovereign George / the third, the 4th June; A.D. 1793'
Details
People
Oddy, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 4/6/1793 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Stewart, Charles Age: Date of Death: 4/6/1793 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation:
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Bibliography: G.G. Milner-Gibson Cullum; Francis Campbell MaCauley 'The inscriptions in the old British cemetery of Leghorn' (Leghorn, 1906) p. 88.
