Cross in Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Captain Frederick Hildebrand Stevens RN d. 1882
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
[Gothic letters]'TO THE MEMORY / OF / FREDERICK HILDEBRAND STEVENS / CAPTAIN ROYAL NAVY. / BORN OCTOBER 31ST 1811. / DIED JANUARY 28TH 1882. / R.I.P. / ERECTED IN LOVING MEMORY / BY HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS.'
Details
Description: Pedestal with cross broken off but leaning on it. Type: Cross Position: Section 151 Materials: Stone
People
Stevens, Frederick Hildebrand Age: 70 Date of Death: 28/01/1882 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Third in from the path. Recorder: Lucy Saint, Eleanor Baugh
Memorial at St Edmund’s Church, Southwold, Suffolk commemorating Philip Church, d. 17[54]
Location
St Edmund's Church, Southwold, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Here resteth the body of Philip Church who dep. this life ... day of Jan. in the year of our Lord 17[54] aged 64 years. / Though boreas blasts and neptunes waves / have tost me two and fro. Yet in spight of / both by God's decree I harbour here below / where I do now at anchor ride with / many of our fleet yet once again I / must set sail our Admiral Christ to meet.'
Details
Description: Headstone carved with a skull and crossbones. Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Church, Philip Age: 66 Date of Death: 1754 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Register of English Monumental Inscriptions' vol.ii, (English Monumental Inscriptions Society, London, 1914) p. 140.
Wall tablet at the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground, Greenwich commemorating Captain Henry Jenkins RN d. 1813 and Lieutenant Richard Jenkins Tregent RN d. 1812
Location
Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of / Captain HENRY JENKINS of the Royal Navy / late a Captain of Greenwich Hospital / who died the 10th of November 1813 / in the 50th year of his Age / Also of Lieut. RICHARD JENKINS TREGENT / of the Royal Navy Nephew to the above / who died the 20th of Dec. 1812 / in the 22nd Year of his Age / his Remains are deposited in the Vault of this Burial Ground'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: Mausoleum (rear wall)
People
Jenkins, Henry Age: 49 Date of Death: 10/11/1813 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Tregent, Richard Jenkins Age: 21 Date of Death: 20/12/1812 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, London, commemorating Captain Peter Parker RN d. 1814
Captain Peter Parker d. 1814
Location
St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England
Transcript
'In the pious Hope of a glorious Resurrection, Pursued through Virtue, Faith and Valour / Here lie interred the Mortal Remains of / SIR PETER PARKER, Baronet, Aged XXVIII Years; / Captain of His Majesty's frigate Menelaus, / An accomplished Officer, and Seaman, who after landing with a part of his Crew, on the coast of AMERICA, / defeated an Enemy supported by Cavalry and Artillery, three times the number of his own Forces; / and in the moment of VICTORY, received a mortal wound, under which he continued to cheer his Men to follow up their triumph, until sinking under its fatal result, he fell into the arms of the Companions of his Glory, / and bravely surrendered on the Field of Battle, his own gallant Spirit to the Mercy of Heaven / He was the lineal descendant of three distinguished British Admirals; of whose Virtues and Valour, he was / alike the Inheritor. His great Grandfather was Admiral CHRISTOPHER PARKER. He was the eldest son of / Admiral CHARLES PARKER whose Father was the late Sir PETER PARKER Bart of Basinbourn Hall Essex / Admiral of the Fleet; and his maternal Uncle was the Honorable Admiral BYRON. / After fifteen years of active and intrepid toil in the service of his Country emulating the Heroism of / his Ancestry, he thus gloriously closed his earthly career Augt 30 1814 / The Officers and Crew of His Majesty's Ship Menelaus, on their return home, in testimony of their deep / affliction at the fall of their beloved Commander, and of their affection for his Memory, have erected / this Monument, as well to commemorate their grief, and reverence for those Virtues which so justly, endeared him to his Ship's company, as to attest to future times, their admiration of that / heroic Valour which distinguished him in Life and enobled him in Death. / STAT SUA CUIQUE DIES; BREVE ET IRREPARIBILE TEMPUS / OMNIBUS EST VITAE; SED FAMAM EXTENDERE FACTIS / HOC VIRTUTIS OPUS. -VIRG.'
Details
Description: Above the inscription tablet, a sarcophagus-shaped tablet on paw feet with a relief showing the dying Parker supported by two seamen. Marines firing at the enemy to the right, stern of ship to left. Naval trophies above to left, in the centre an oval profile of Parker supported by a full-length figure of Menelaus seated to the right. Type: Wall tablet Position: West end of north aisle Materials: Marble Artists: Christopher Prosperi Vessel: HMS Menelaus
Event
War of 1812
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Parker, Peter Age: 28 Date of Death: 30/8/1814 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: See poem by Byron begining 'There is a tear for all that die' DOSSIER (NADFAS). Captain Royal Navy HMS 'Menelaus', killed in action while landing troops on USA coast.
Bibliography: A.E. Daniell 'London Riverside Churches' (London, 1897) p. 171. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) 1998 Photographer: Barbara Tomlinson
Memorial at Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Charles Wensley RMLI d. 1893
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
'In Memory of Charles Wensley Private R.M.L.I., H.M.S. LEANDER died at Hong Kong 28th January 1893 aged 24. Gone but not forgotten. Erected by his shipmates.'
Details
Description: Headstone with ivy branches and a cross carved above the inscription. Type: Headstone Vessel: HMS Leander
People
Wensley, Charles Age: 24 Date of Death: 28/1/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Memorial at St Peter’s Parish Church, Liverpool commemorating John Tierney d. 1832
Location
St Peter's Parish Church, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'John Tierney, Shipwright, died 17 September 1830 age 21. Edward Tierney, Shipwright, drowned in River Mersey 6th February 1832 aged 28'
Details
People
Tierney, John Age: 21 Date of Death: 17/9/1830 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipwright Organisation: Tierney, Edward Age: 28 Date of Death: 6/2/1832 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipwright Organisation:
Extra
Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 1, p. 335. Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
Memorial in St Swithin’s Church, Sandford, Devon commemorating William Bent RN d. 1852, surgeon
Location
St Swithin's Church, Sandford, Devon, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM HENRY BENT / SURGEON OF HMS FANTOME, SECOND SON OF LT COL BENT RA / WHO AT THE AGE OF 34 YEARS WAS DROWNED BY THE SWAMPING OF / A BOAT ON THE BAR OF PORIRUA NEW ZEALAND NOVEMBER 11TH 1852, / IN A HUMANE AND GALLANT ATTEMPT TO RENDER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE / TO A BED RIDDEN SETTLER OF THAT PLACE. / THIS TABLET RECORDS THE UNAVAILING SORROW / OF THE SURVIVORS OF A LARGE AND UNITED FAMILY / WHICH HAD GROWN UP TOGETHER IN AFFECTION, / AND WHICH HE, THE INEXPRESSIBLY DEAR SON AND BROTHER / WAS THE FIRST TO QUIT FOR ANOTHER, AND, IT IS HUMBLY HOPED / THROUGH GOD`S MERCY, AND FAITH IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, / A BETTER WORLD.'
