Wall tablet at Chalfont St Giles ocommemorating Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser RN. d. 1796.
Location
St Giles's Church, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England
Transcript
' Near this Place / are deposited / the Remains of Sir HUGH PALLISER Bart. / Of the Vache in this Parish: / Who formerly represented the Boroughs of Scarborough and / Huntingdon in Parliament: was Comptroller of the Navy / One of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty / Lieutenant General of Marines; Commander in Chief / Of His Majesty's ships at Newfoundland; Governor of that Island / And died the 19th of March 1796, / Admiral of the White Squadron; / An Elder Brother of the Trinity House; / Governor of Scarborough Castle and of the Royal/Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich: / aged 74 years. / The Inhabitants desire here to commemorate SIR HUGH PALLISER'S Bequest of a School House & L30 a Year, for / Ever, towards educating and Cloathing 20 poor Boys & 20 poor Girls of this Parish'
Details
Description: Butterfly encircled with a snake with a tail in its mouth between two dolphins. Type: Wall tablet Position: North wall of chancel Materials: White marble, grey clouded marble.
Event
Battle of Ushant
Event Date
1778
Event Category
17793 - 1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Palliser, Hugh Age: 74 Date of Death: 19/3/1796 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the White. Comptroller of the Navy. Governor of Greenwich Hospital Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Royal Navy
Plaque in St Clement’s Church, Leigh-on-Sea, dedicated to Captain William Henry Brand RN d. 1867
Location
St Clement's Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England
Transcript
'On the centenary of Trafalgar, the four surviving sons of Captain W.H. Brand who is buried here, have placed this stone to record that as Midshipman of H.M.S. Revenge he was one of those who in the momentous Battle of 21 Oct 1805 so amply satisfied their country that they had done their duty. Through ten years of almost ceaseless warfare following Nelson's victory, Captain Brand bore a gallant part in many dangerous engagements and enterprises distinguishing himself by devotion to duty, daring & seamanship, worthy of England's Naval Traditions. In the period of his country's great struggle Captain Brand's Father, himself formerly in the Navy, gave four other sons to Her Service, one to the Military, 3 to Naval forces of the latter Lieutenant George Rowley Brand lost his life in action in 1806 under circumstances publicly recognised as of heroic gallantry going down on H.M.S. Unique, which he commanded with colours flying and himself covered with twenty seven severe wounds'
Details
Type: Plaque Position: Chapel on south side Vessel: HMS Unique, HMS Revenge
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Brand, William Henry Age: Date of Death: 1867 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Brand, George Rowley Age: Date of Death: 23/2/1806 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: George Rowley Brand was killed in action in command of HMS 'Unique' during her capture on 23 February 1806 by a French privateer in the West Indies. Bibliography: Robert Holden Mackenzie 'The Trafalgar Roll' (London, 1913). Recorder: William Donnan, 1969
Wall tablet in Wolverhampton, West Midlands commemorating Surgeon Richard Huskisson RN d. 1794
Location
Bushbury church, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY / OF WILLIAM HUSKISSON Esq: of OXLEY, in the Parish / of BUSHBURY who died the 12 of February 1790 , Aged 47 Years / And of ELIZABETH his WIFE who DIED the 19th / of September 1774 Aged 31 YEARs / ALSO of RICHARD HUSKISSON their second Son who / served as a NAVAL and MILITARY SURGEON: first in the / THETIS frigate 1793 , afterwards in the reduction of Martinique, / and St Lucia: and finally of Guadeloupe, where he / expired in the 24th Year of his Age 1794 / BRAVE, SENSIBLE, HUMANE, THY MIND AND HEART, / COMPLETELY FASHION'D FOR THE HEALING ART, / LED THE YOUNG HUSKISSON WITH GUARDIAN CARE, / TO RESCUE VALOUR FROM PERDITION'S SNARE: / TEACHING THE MARINER IN NOXIOUS SEAS, / TO FOIL THE HOVERING HARPY OF DISEASE; / THE BOLDER PITY LABOURED TO SUSTAIN, / THE SOLDIER DROOPING WITH CONTAGIOUS PAIN; / WHERE DEATH, THAT NATURE TO HER RAGE MIGHT BEND, / ROBB'D HER OF THEE, HER SALUTARY FRIEND, / HUMANITY AND HONOUR JOIN'D IN GRIEF, / WHERE THEY DEJECTED LOST THY DEAR RELIEF, / PAYING TO VIRTUE THEIR ACKNOWLEDGED DEBT, / GAVE THEE A FOREIGN GRAVE WITH FOND REGRET, / A BROTHER WHO IN THEE COULD ONCE REJOICE, / (HIS BOSOM FRIEND BY NATURE AND BY CHOICE) / FEELS AND RECORDS ON THIS THY VACANT TOMB, / PRIDE IN THY WORTH AND ANGUISH IN THY DOOM'
Huskisson, Richard Age: 23 Date of Death: 1794 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Erected by Richard's brother William Huskisson, President of the board of Trade. Bibliography: C.R. Fay. 'Huskisson and His Age' (London, 1951). Recorder: Alex Chatwin 1980
Memorial in St Nicholas’s Church, Ringmore, Devon commemorating Hugh Cates d. 1898
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Ringmore, Devon, England
Transcript
'To the glory of God and in loving memory of Hugh William Francis Cates. Killed by a fall from the rigging of the Waitangi near Dunedin November 6th 1898 aged 18'
Details
Type: Brass Position: South wall beside door Materials: Brass Vessel: Waitangi
People
Cates, Hugh William Francis Age: 19 Date of Death: 6/11/1898 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
Gravestone at Arbroath Abbey commemorating Thomas Fearnie d. 1813 shipbuilder
Location
Abbey, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
Transcript
[Front] 'Erected / In memory of Thomas Fearnie / late Ship Builder in Arbroath / who died 9th October 1813 / Aged 40 years / and is interred here / Alexander Fearnie caused / this stone to be placed here as / a mark of regard for a / Loving Brother' [Back] 'The carpenter stretcheth out his / Rule he marketh it out with a line / he fitteth it with planes, and he / marketh it out with the compass'
Details
Description: The reverse of the stone has the lines of a boat engraved above the inscription. Type: Gravestone Position: Kirkyard Materials: Sandstone
People
Fearnie, Thomas Age: 40 Date of Death: 9/10/1813 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipbuilder Organisation:
Extra
Bibliography: Barbara Tomlinson ‘Commemorating the seafarer: monuments, memorials and memory’ (London, 2015) p. 126, Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
