Wall monument in St Mary’s Church, Barnes, London commemorating James Forster Boulton d. 1914 in the Battle of Coronel
Location
St Mary's Church, Barnes, London, England
Transcript
'IN / MEMORY / OF JAMES FORSTER BOULTON / MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / H.M.S. MONMOUTH / DEARLY LOVED SECOND SON / A.C. FORSTER BOULTON J.P. / KILLED IN THE NAVAL ACTION / OFF THE COAST OF CHILE / NOV 1ST 1914 / AGED 15'
Details
Description: Oval tablet within rope twist border, a uniform cap above, and a flower wreath below. Type: Wall monument Position: Langton Chapel Vessel: HMS Monmouth
Event
Battle of Cape Coronel
Event Date
1914
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Boulton, James Forster Age: 15 Date of Death: 1/11/1914 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Effigy at Trinity Hospital, Greenwich part of a monument commemorating Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton Lord Privy Seal d. 1614
Location
Trinity Hospital, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'HENRICUS HOWARDUS, HENRICI COMITIS SURRIAE FILIUS, THOMAE SECUNDI DUCIS NORFOLCIAE NEPOS; ET THOMAE TERTII FRATER; COMES NORTHAMPTONIAE; BARON HOWARD DE MARNEHILL; PRIVATI SIGILLI CUSTOS, CASTRI DOVERENSIS CONSTABULARIUS, QUINQUE PORTUUM CUSTOS, CANCELLARIUS ET ADMIRALLUS, JACOBO MAGNAE BRITANNIAE REGI AB INTIMIS CONCILIIS, ORDINIS PERISCELIDIS EQUES AURATUS ET ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSIS CANCELLARIUS, INTER NOBILES LITERATISSIMUS IN SPEM RESURGENDI IN CHRISTO HIC CONDITUR OB 15 DIE JUNII AD 1614 INCLYTUS HIC COMES TRIA HOSPITALIA FUNDAVIT ET LATI FUNDIIS DOTAVIT, UNUM GRENOVICI IN CANTIO IN QUO VIGINTI EGENI ET PRAEFECTUS; ALTERUM CLUNI IN COMITATU SALOPIAE IN QUO 12 EGENI CUM PRAEFECTO, TERTIUM AD CASTRUM RISING IN COMITATU NORFOLCIAE IN QUO 12 PAUPERCULAE CUM GUBERNATRICE IN PERPETUUM ALANTUR JOANNE GRIFFITHO HUIC COMITI AB EPISTOLIS CURANTE, POSITUM' [Henry Howard, son of Henry Earl of Surrey (who was grandson of Thomas, Second Duke of Norfolk) he was the brother of Thomas (Howard) III (4th Duke of Norfolk) Earl of Northampton, Baron Howard of Marnehill, Keeper of the Privy Seal, constable of the castle of Dover, Warden of the Cinque Ports, chancellor and admiral, Privy Councilor of James, King of Great Britain, Knight of the Garter and chancellor of Cambridge University. The most learned of noblemen. He died on 15th June 1614 and lies here in hope of resurrection in Christ. This celebrated Earl founded three hospitals and endowed them with revenues. The first at Greenwich in Kent, housed twenty needy men and a governor, another at Clun in the County of Shropshire-twelve poor men and a governor, the third at Castel Rising in the County of Norfolk-twelve poor women and a governess.] 'Near this monument lies the body of the Right Hon Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, Baron of Marnehill, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Guardian of ye Cinque Ports, Constable of the Castle of Dover, Chancelor of Camb. and Kt of the Garter. A monument was first erected in the Chappel of the Castle of Dover, Ano Dom 1614, but the said chappel falling to decay, the Worshipful Company of Mercers, London (Governors of this Hospital, founded ano 1613 by the aforesaid E of North.) caused a monument together with ye body of the said E. of North. to be removed into this chappel by the permission of the Arch. of Canterb. Hn D of Norf and Henry E. of Romney William Ivat, Esq Master Mr Jasper Clotterbooke Jun. Mr William Bridges Mr John Archer Wardens of ye Company of Mercers ano 1666 By the care of Mr Fran Burry mercer John Stowe then warden of this Hospital'
Details
Description: Kneeling effigy in armour wearing the mantle of a Knight of the Garter and a ruff. Originally part of a white-veined marble altar tomb, supporting a baldachino resting on four square pillars and enclosing a black marble sarcophagus. Figures representing the four cardinal virtues - temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice were placed at the corners. The effigy was in the centre of the canopy, with a sword (now missing). At the corners of the canopy were four cherubs bearing the arms of the Howard, Brotherton, Warren and Mowbray families. There were more arms on panels at the ends of the base. Type: Effigy Position: South side nave Date Erected: 1615 Artists: Nicholas Stone
People
Howard, Henry Age: 74 Date of Death: 15/6/1614 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: nobleman Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER Cost £500-00. Moved from Dover circa 1696. Broken up when chapel rebuilt in 1812. Bibliography: Charles Heathcote Tatham 'A description of the Ancient Monument of Henry Earl of Northampton KG the founder of Trinity Hospital at East Greenwich in the County of Kent' (1838 reprinted 1873); John Stow ed. Strype 'A survey of the cities of London and Westminster' App.1, pp. 93-4; Horace Walpole 'Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some account of the principal artists' (London, 1888); K.A. Esdaile 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1946) p. 82; 'Walpole Society' vol. vii, p. 38.
Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India commemorating Stephen Read, d. 1845
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the Memory of Stephen Read / Branch Pilot H.C.B.M. / departed this life on the 7th September 1845, / aged 48 years, 4 months and 18 days. / Reader, reflect and copy if you can, / The social virtues of this worthy man. / This monument is erected by his disconsolate widow.'
Details
Vessel: HMS Conway
People
Read, Stephen Age: 48 Date of Death: 7/9/1845 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Branch Pilot Organisation: Bengal Pilot Service
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.175.
Gravestone in Leckhampton, Gloucestershire commemorating Rear-Admiral Sir Salusbury Davenport d. 1845,
Location
St Peter's Church, Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'Sir Salusbury Davenport, of Bramhall Hall, Cheshire, Rear Admiral of the White, CB & KCH. He died at Cheltenham on the 17th November 1845 and was buried in this church yard by his own written desire.'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Davenport, Salusbury Age: Date of Death: 17/11/1845 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating Captain John Clement Chiswell d. 1834
Location
Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Captain John Clement Chiswell died 11 February 1834 aged 34'
Details
People
Chiswell, John Clement Age: 34 Date of Death: 11/2/1834 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
Extra
Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 8, p. 559. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site. Recorder: Captain J.P. Brand
