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!’
Details
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'
Details
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
Extra
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.
Monument in Amersham, Buckinghamshire commemorating Lieutenant George Arthur T. Drake RN d. 1884
Location
St Mary's Church, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Transcript
[On monument to John T Drake] 'Also of George Arthur T Drake third son of the above. 1st Lieutenant of H.M.S. Severn accidentally drowned in the Madras Roads June 20 1884 aged 31'
Details
Position: Drake Chapel Vessel: HMS Severn
People
Drake, George Arthur T. Age: 31 Date of Death: 20/6/1884 Cause of Death: Maritime Accident Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in Tetbury, Gloucestershire dedicated to Commander Alfred John Paul RN d. 1811
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'Alfred John Paul, Esqre., Commander R.N., sixth son of Robert Clark Paul, Esqre. of this town, born 11th January 1811, died 18th August 1845. He entered the Naval Service in January 1824; was midshipman of the Dartmouth, at Navarino, and Flag Lieutenant in the Wellesley, at the taking of Chusan, and in the operations against Canton and subsequent capture of that city, in the year 1841; in which service he obtained his promotion. This tablet is erected by his brothers as a token of the sincere love and affection which they bore him.'
Details
Description: Memorial in Tetbury, Gloucestershire dedicated to Alfred Paul. d. 1845 Position: East wall nave
Event
First China War
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Paul, Alfred Age: 34 Date of Death: 18/8/1845 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in Bloomsbury, London dedicated to Lieutenant George Young RN d. 1799
Location
Bloomsbury Cemetery, Bloomsbury, London, England
Transcript
'Here rest the remains of / Lieut. Geo. F.F. YOUNG / Of the Royal Navy, / Son of Rear-Admiral Sir Geo. Young. / He was born the 10th of September, 1770 / And died the 15th of January, 1799, aged 29 years'
Details
People
Young, George Age: 29 Date of Death: 15/1/1799 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Frederick Teague Cansick 'Epitaphs of Middlesex' (London, 1869) vol ii, p. 255
Memorial in St Mary’s Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk commemorating Rear-Admiral William Carthew, RN, d. 1827
Location
St Mary's Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / WILLIAM CARTHEW ESQUIRE / A REAR ADMIRAL IN THE ROYAL NAVY / MANY YEARS / A MAGISTRATE AND A DEPUTY LIEUTENANT / FOR THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK / HIS HONOURABLE USEFUL AND CHRISTIAN LIFE / WAS CLOSED / ON THE XXXI JULY MDCCXXVII / IN THE LXX YEAR OF HIS AGE. / HE WAS THE ELDEST SON OF THE / LATE THOMAS CARTHEW CLERK BY HIS FIRST / WIFE ELIZABETH / DAUGHTER AND COHEIRESS OF / THOMAS MORDEN CLERK ONLY BROTHER OF / SIR WILLIAM MORDEN HARBORD / BART. K.B'
Details
Description: Neo-classical wall tablet, anthemion acroteria, arms and crest above the inscription. Crossed palm branches on the apron. Type: Wall tablet Position: West end of South Aisle Materials: Marble
People
Carthew, William Age: 69 Date of Death: 31/7/1827 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: Pippa Lacey; Dr Pieter van der Merwe Photographer: Dr Pieter van der Merwe 2019
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
