Headstone at St Michael’s Church, Huyton, Liverpool commemorating William Thomas Tyrer d. 1874 in the loss of the ‘British Admiral’
Location
St Michael's Church, Huyton, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'In affectionate remembrance of Wm. Lawson born March 24, 1792 died Dec 1 1873. Wm. Thos. TYRER born April 16, 1851, lost in the 'BRITISH ADMIRAL' May 23, 1874...'
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Type: Headstone Position: Next to vestry Vessel: British Admiral
People
Tyrer, William Thomas Age: 22 Date of Death: 23/5/1874 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: British Shipowners Co Ltd, Liverpool
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Notes: 'British Admiral' was an iron clipper ship wrecked on King's Island. Tasmania on 23 May 1874. 79 passengers and crew were lost. William Tyrer was one of a group that managed to reach the shore in a boat, only to be drowned when it capsized in the surf. William Tyrer was born in Wallasey, Cheshire and William Lawson was his grandfather. Bibliography: 'The Argos' (Melbourne, 1 June 1874). Recorder: Martin Davies 1984, Friends of Merseyside Maritime Museum
Memorial at St Peter’s Church, Port Royal, Jamaica commemorating George Edward Oughton RN d. 1832
Location
St Peter's Church, Port Royal, Jamaica, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of George Edward OUGHTON, Gentleman R.N., Eldest son of George V. OUGHTON, Esquire, R.N., K.T.S., who departed this life 4th August 1832 aged 28 years. This tablet is erected to the memory of the deceased by his affectionate father'
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People
Oughton, George Edward Age: 28 Date of Death: 4/8/1832 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
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Bibliography: Captain J.H. Lawrence-Archer 'Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies' (London, 1875).
Wall tablet in the Garrison Chapel, Portsmouth commemorating Admiral Sir George Campbell, d. 1821.
Location
Garrison Chapel, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL G.C.B. / ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET. / HE WAS THE SON OF PRYSE CAMPBELL ESQ. OF CAWDOR CASTLE, COUNTY OF NAIRN M.P. AND BROTHER OF LORD CAWDOR. / HE DIED COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 23RD 1821 AGED 59 / HAVING SERVED 49 YEARS IN THE ROYAL NAVY IN WHICH HE EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF / IN MOST ARDUOUS AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES, IN CONSIDERATION OF WHICH AND HIS HIGH CHARACTER / HIS PRESENT MAJESTY IN THE MOST GRACIOUS MANNER APPOINTED HIM GROOM OF THE BEDCHAMBER / AND CONFERRED ON HIM THE MOST HONOURABLE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH / TO HIM, WHOSE, LOYAL, BRAVE AND GENTLE HEART, / FULFILL'D THE HERO'S AND THE CHRISTIAN'S PART; / WHOSE CHARITY LIKE THAT WHICH PAUL ENJOIN'D / WAS WARM, BENEFICENT AND UNCONFIN'D / THIS STONE IS REAR'D- TO PUBLICK DUTY TRUE / THE SEAMAN'S FRIEND - THE FATHER OF HIS CREW, / MILD IN REPROOF, SAGACIOUS IN COMMAND, / HE SPREAD FRATERNAL ZEAL THROUGHOUT HIS BAND, / AND LED EACH ARM TO ACT, EACH HEART TO FEEL, / WHAT BRITISH VALOUR OWES TO BRITAIN'S WEAL, / THESE WERE HIS PUBLICK VIRTUES- BUT TO TRACE / HIS PRIVATE WORTH'S FAIR PURITY AND GRACE: / TO PAINT THE TRAITS THAT DREW AFFECTION STRONG / FROM FRIENDS AN ARDENT AND AN AMPLE THRONG: / AND MORE TO SPEAK HIS MEMORY'S GRATEFUL CLAIM / ON HER WHO MOURNS HIM MOST, AND BEARS HIS NAME, / O'ERCOMES THE TREMBLING HAND OF WIDOW'S GRIEF, / O'ERCOMES THE HEART UNCONSCIOUS OF RELIEF / SAVE IN RELIGION'S HIGH AND HOLY TRUST / WHILST PLACING THIS MEMORIAL O'ER HIS DUST'
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Description: An altar in relief with Campbell's full arms on the front, a cocked hat and sword above, the whole draped with an ensign with a sextant at the base.
Type: Wall tablet Materials: Marble
People
Campbell, George Age: 59 Date of Death: 23/1/1821 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial formerly in the Cimetière de Vaurigard, Paris commemorating Captain John Wesley Wright RN d. 1805
Location
Cimetière de Vaurigard, Paris, France, Rest of the World
Transcript
‘Here Lies Inhumed / JOHN WESLEY WRIGHT, / BY BIRTH AN Englishman, / CAPTAIN IN THE BRITISH NAVY, / Distinguished both among his own / Countrymen and Foreigners / For skill and courage / To whom, / Of those things which lead to the summit of glory, /Nothing was wanting but opportunity. / His ancestors, whose virtues he inherited, / He honoured by his deeds. / Quick in apprehending his orders, / Active and bold in the execution of them. / In success modest, / In adverse circumstances firm, / In doubtful enterprises, wise and prudent. / Awhile successful in his career, / At length assailed by adverse winds, and on an hostile shore, / He was captured; / And being soon after brought to Paris, / Was confined in the prison called the Temple, / Infamous for midnight murders, / And placed in the most rigid custody: / But in bonds, / And suffering severities still more oppressive, / His fortitude of mind and fidelity to his country / Remained unshaken. /
A short time after, / He was found in the morning with his throat cut, / And dead in his bed. / He died the 28th October, 1805, aged 36. / To be lamented by his Country, /
Avenged by his God!’
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Date Erected: 1816
People
Wright, John Wesley Age: Date of Death: 28/10/1805 Cause of Death: Murdered Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Murdered in his sleep in Temple Prison. Tombstone erected by Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith 1816. Wright's grave now lost. Bibliography: 'London Chronicle' (1 October 1816).
Memorial at St Paul’s Church, Deptford, London commemorating Vice-Admiral James Sayer d. 1776
Location
St Paul's Church, Deptford, London, England
Transcript
'In memory of James Sayer Esq, Vice Admiral of the White, son of John Sayer Esq and Katherine his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of Rear Admiral Robert Hughes and Lydia his wife, who all lie buried in the old church of this town, with many of their issue. He was a man of the strictest honour and integrity; an active and diligent officer. In the war of 1739, he had the thanks of the Assembly of Barbadoes for his disinterested conduct in the protection of their trade; and he first planted the British Standard in the island of Tobago. In the war of 1756, he led the attacks both at the taking of Senegal and Goree; and was commander in chief off the French coast at Belle Isle, at the time of making the peace in 1763. As his life was most exemplary, he met death with becoming fortitude, after a tedious and most painful illness, on the 29th of October 1776 aged 56 years'
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Position: North side of chancel Date Erected: 1776 Artists: Joseph Nollekens
People
Sayer, James Age: 56 Date of Death: 29/10/1776 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: 'The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy' gives his date of death as 15/10/1777. Another monument by John Ricketts the younger 1776, at Sandford St Martin Oxfordshire to an Admiral Sayer. Bibliography: A.E. Daniell 'London Riverside Churches' (London, 1897) p. 301.
