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Parc Richelieu, Calais, France, Rest of the World

Memorial in Parc Richelieu, Calais, France commemorating Emma Lady Hamilton d. 1815

Location

Parc Richelieu, Calais, France, Rest of the World

Transcript

'EMMA LADY HAMILTON / BORN 26 APRIL 1765 / NESSE, ENGLAND / DIED 15 JANUARY 1815 / CALAIS, FRANCE / WIFE OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON / BELOVED FRIEND OF / ADMIRAL LORD NELSON.'

Details

Description: Obelisk on plinth with ball at the top.
Type: Obelisk
Date Erected: 1994

People

Hamilton, Emma
Age: 49
Date of Death: 1815
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Bibliography: Colin White (editor) 'The Nelson Companion' (Portsmouth,1995) pp.150-1. Erection of memorial funded by Mrs Jean Kislak.

JSON

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All Saints Church, Chelsea, London, England

Memorial at All Saints Church, Chelsea commemorating Peregrine Clifford Chamberlayne d. 1691

Location

All Saints Church, Chelsea, London, England

Transcript

'POSTERITATI SACRUM / HIC JUXTA SITUS EST PERIGRINUS CLIFFORD / CHAMBERLAYNE DUX MARINUS FILIUS NATU / MAXIMUS EDVARDI CHAMBERLAYNE / LEGUM DOCTORIS / NATUS FUIT HAGAE COMITIS 22 JAN 1660 / QUI TUM LINGUIS SCIETIIS LIBERALIBUS / STUDIO LEGUM MUNICIPALIUM ARTIBUS / PINGENDI, PSALLENDI, DIGLIADIENDI / MODULANDI / TERRAS ET REGIONIES DIMITIENDI / SED PRAE OMNIBUS OPERAM NAVIGANDI DEDISSET / QUATUOR MUDI PLAGAS LUTRASSET REGI / PATRAE FIDELITER AC STRENUE CONTRA GALLOS / ET INDOS MERUISSET, HEU PRAEMATURE IN / TERRAS OBLIVIONIS SEMIGAVIT / 6 NOVEM 1691 / HOC MONUMENTUS NON IMPUNE TEMERANDUM / PONI CURAVIT MOERENS PATER' [ Sacred to posterity, near this place lies interred Peregrine Clifford Chamberlayne, a naval officer, eldest son of Edward Chamberlayne, Doctor of Law, born in the Hague, Jan 22 1660, who was well skilled in the learned languages and liberal sciences; also in municipal law; but especially in navigation. He visited the four parts of the world; and after having deserved well both of his king and country, by fighting valiantly against the French and the Indians, he died the sixth of November 1691. This monument, not to be violated with impunity, his sorrowful father caused to be erected]

Details

Type: Slab
Position: Churchyard

People

Chamberlayne, Peregrine Clifford
Age: 31
Date of Death: 6/11/1691
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Naval Officer
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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Lancaster Priory, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Gravestone at Lancaster Priory commemorating John Adamson d. 1791, shipwright

Location

Lancaster Priory, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Transcript

'In Memory of / JOHN ADAMSON Shipwright / Died Sept 27th 1791 Aged 26 Years / CALEB ADAMSON the Son of JOHN / and ELIZABTH ADAMSON / Attorney at Law who died the 22nd / day of January 1816 aged 25 Years / and of RICHARD WADESON / who died at Kingston, Jamaica / 4th February 1... aged 20 Years.'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Slate

People

Adamson, John
Age: 26
Date of Death: 27/9/1791
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Shipwright
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Laid flat
Recorder: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating John Brett d. 1906

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'JOHN BRETT / chief stoker H.M.S. 'Albion' / died / 3 / Jan'y 1906 aged 35'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 367
Vessel: HMS Albion

People

Brett, John
Age: 35
Date of Death: 3/1/1906
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Chief Stoker
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

JSON

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Collegiate church of St Peter, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England

Memorial at St Peter’s Church, Wolverhampton commemorating Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Leveson d. 1605

Location

Collegiate church of St Peter, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England

Transcript

'RICHARDI LEVESON DE LILLESHUL IN AGRO SALOP / EQUESTRI ORDINE MILITIS ILLUSTRISSIMI / QUI UXORE DVXIT MARGARETAEM FIL CAROLI HOWARDI / COMITIS NOTINGHA THAESSIARCHAE HAERES EX TESTAMENTO / ET MASCULA, / CONSANGUINTATE PROXIMUS / RICHARDUS LEVESON BALN FIL IOH LLV DE. / HAILING IN CONT CANTIL EQ FIL THOM LEV. ARMIG FIL / NIC LEV.ARM.FIAT NATV. MAIORIS IAC. LEV. DE / LILLESHUL.ARM PATRIS RIC. LEV. EQ PATR WALT. LEV EQ. / PAT EIUS DE CELEBERRIM DNISUBTUS SERVIT / GRATI DUDINIS ERGO HANC STALVAM EX AERE SACRAVIT / ANNUM AGENS UNDENIGESIMUM PRAECLARA FAMAE SPECIMA EDITIT IN MEMORANDA / ILLA CONTRA IBERUM NAVALI VICTORIA 1588 / IN IPSA EXPUGNATIONE CADIZ IN EQUESTREM DIGNITATEM ASCITVS AN 1596 / AD AZORES INSULAS APERTO PRAELIO CUM HISPANIS REM FAELICITER GESSIT AN 1597 / CVI REDVCI CUSTODIAM FRETI BRITANICI DIVA ANGLIAE REGINA ELIZABETHA / COMISIT CONSUMISSIMO AN 1598 / PRIUDENTIAM ET FORTITVDINEM EIUS IN REBUS BELLICIS ADMINSTRANDIS / AGNOVERE SUO DMNO HISPANI. ADKILSAL 1601 / ET CASTLEHAVEN HIBERNIAE OPPIDA A SECEMBRI IN PORTUGALIA INGENTEM / NAVIM. SEV CARRICK AB INDIA ORIENTALI / RE DEUNTEM PRECIOSISIMUS OPIBUS ONUMSTAM MAGNO CERTAMINE DEBILLATAM UNAQ / MARCHIONIS SPINOLA HOSTIS TREMIBUS PRAEFECTI ET STRENVE PVGNANTIS / INSIGNIA GENTILITIA IN ANGLIAM ABDVXIT AN 1602 / IMPERANTE AUGUSTISS IACOBO VICE PRAEFECTUS CLASSIUM TOTIUS IMPERILAUDIT AN 1603 / MARISCALLUS MILITUR IN LEGATIONE QUA PAX INTER ANGLIAM ET HISPANIAM / CONCILLATUR UNDE REVERSUS 4 TO NONAS SEXTIS AN 1605 EVOTA PIE DISCESSIT LONDINI SINE / EROLE SLD NON SINE MAGNO MILITORUM LUC TO AURO DIGNUS AERE CONTENTUS.' 'Here lyeth the body of Perfection's Glorie / Fame's owne worlde wonder, and the ocean's story. / The right protector, rightful scourge of wrong, / In peace a dove, in war a lyon strong, / Vertues embracer, Vices opposite, / Times chiefest ornament, true valour's Knight. / The all just Heaven, regarding high deserts, / bereav'd the earth of his devine parts, / Leaving here nought of him but slimy dross / And a continual grief for such a loss.'

Details

Description: Statue in armour.
Type: Effigy
Materials: Bronze
Artists: Hubert Le Sueur

Event

Spanish Armada

Event Date

1588

Event Category

1584-1604 Conflict between England and Spain

People

Leveson, Richard
Age:
Date of Death: 2/8/1605
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Part of larger monument destroyed during Commonwealth period. DOSSIER.
Bibliography: Adam White 'A Biographical Dictionary of London Tomb Sculptors', 'The Sixty-first volume of the Walpole Society' p. 79 (1999).
Recorder: A.E. Lloyd 1981

JSON

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  "id": "M4872",
  "location": "Collegiate church of St Peter, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England",
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    "description": "Statue in armour.",
    "type": "Effigy",
    "position": "",
    "materials": "Bronze",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "Hubert Le Sueur",
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    "event":"Spanish Armada",
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Bunhill Fields cemetery, London, England

Memorial at Bunhill Fields cemetery, London commemorating Thomas Stothard d. 1834, history painter

Location

Bunhill Fields cemetery, London, England

Details

Description: Arched top, inscription virtually illegible.
Type: Headstone

People

Stothard, Thomas
Age: 79
Date of Death: 1834
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Historical painter
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Historical painter born 1755.
Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 92.

JSON

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  "id": "M898",
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St James's Church, Staveley, Cumbria, England

Tablet in Staveley, Cumbria dedicated to Thomas de Lambert d. 1856

Location

St James's Church, Staveley, Cumbria, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / THOMAS FENWICK DE LAMBERT, / OF THE SHIP "DEVA" OF LIVERPOOL / ELDEST AND MUCH BELOVED SON / OF ROBERT DE LAMBERT, OF THIS DEMESNE, / WHO DIED AT CALCUTTA 29TH SEPTEMBER 1856 / AGED 15 YEARS. / "THE LORD GIVETH AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; / BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD'

Details

Type: Tablet
Position: Interiot
Materials: Marble
Vessel: Deva

People

De Lambert, Thomas Fenwick
Age: 15
Date of Death: 29/9/1856
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

JSON

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  "transcript": "'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / THOMAS FENWICK DE LAMBERT, / OF THE SHIP \"DEVA\" OF LIVERPOOL / ELDEST AND MUCH BELOVED SON / OF ROBERT DE LAMBERT, OF THIS DEMESNE, / WHO DIED AT CALCUTTA 29TH SEPTEMBER 1856 / AGED 15 YEARS. / \"THE LORD GIVETH AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; / BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD'",
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Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World

Memorial at Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania commemorating Captain Clement Pinel, d. 1868

Location

Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Capt. Clement Pinel / Master of the British Vessel / Enfield / died 20th May / 1868 / aged 27 years'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: Enfield

People

Pinel, Clement
Age: 27
Date of Death: 20/5/1868
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

JSON

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Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England

Memorial at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk commemorating William Dickeson, HM Coastguard, d. 1884

Location

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'In / Memory / of / WILLIAM DICKESON / Late Commissioned Boatman in / H.M. Coastguard at Aldeburgh / who was accidentally drowned / at Orford on 23rd July 1884 / Leaving a wife and six children / in the the fatherless findeth mercy'.

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Sandstone

People

Dickeson, William
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 23/7/1884
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Boatman
Organisation: HM Coastguard

Extra

JSON

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St Lawrence's Church, Bidborough, Kent, England

Wall tablet in St Lawrence’s Church, Bidborough, Kent commemorating Captain William Critchell, RN d. 1873 and Lieutenant Archer Critchell, RM, d. 1857

Location

St Lawrence's Church, Bidborough, Kent, England

Transcript

'TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN WILLIAM CRITCHELL, / ROYAL NAVY / WHO ENTERED THE SERVICE 1809, / WAS ENGAGED AT THE SIEGE OF CADIZ 1812, / AND EMPLOYED ON ACTIVE SERVICE / 22 YEARS. RETIRED 1846. / DIED SEPTEMBER 19th 1873. / ALSO OF / ARCHER CROFT CRITCHELL / LIEUTENANT ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY, / SON OF THE ABOVE, / WHO SERVED THROUGHOUT THE CRIMEAN WAR, / RECEIVED THE CRIMEAN MEDAL WITH THE CLASP OF SEBASTOPOL AND BALACLAVA, / AND WAS IN THE ACTION OF ODESSA / AND CAPTURE OF KINBURN. / DIED NOVEMBER 30th 1857, AGED 27 YEARS. / ALSO / ANNE WILMOT, / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE / DIED NOVEMBER 27th 1884. / "I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU".

Details

Description: White marble tablet on a black marble mount. The inscription is on a carved scroll draped over the cornice of the tablet. Above, is a trophy of an anchor, a banner and two crossed swords. A crest of an eagle's head engorged with a laurel wreath is carved on the base of the memorial.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: South wall
Materials: Marble
Artists: T. Sharp

Event

Crimea War

Event Date

1853-1856

Event Category

19th century conflicts in Asia

People

Critchell, William
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 19/9/1873
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Critchell, Archer Croft
Age: 27
Date of Death: 30/11/1857
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RM
Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry

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Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) 2004

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{
  "post_id": "1721",
  "id": "M5253",
  "location": "St Lawrence's Church, Bidborough, Kent, England",
  "transcript": "'TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN WILLIAM CRITCHELL, / ROYAL NAVY / WHO ENTERED THE SERVICE 1809, / WAS ENGAGED AT THE SIEGE OF CADIZ 1812, / AND EMPLOYED ON ACTIVE SERVICE / 22 YEARS. RETIRED 1846. / DIED SEPTEMBER 19th 1873. / ALSO OF / ARCHER CROFT CRITCHELL / LIEUTENANT ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY, / SON OF THE ABOVE, / WHO SERVED THROUGHOUT THE CRIMEAN WAR, / RECEIVED THE CRIMEAN MEDAL WITH THE CLASP OF SEBASTOPOL AND BALACLAVA, / AND WAS IN THE ACTION OF ODESSA / AND CAPTURE OF KINBURN. / DIED NOVEMBER 30th 1857, AGED 27 YEARS. / ALSO / ANNE WILMOT, / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE / DIED NOVEMBER 27th 1884. / \"I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU\".",
  "content": "<p>Wall tablet in St Lawrence’s Church, Bidborough, Kent commemorating Captain William Critchell, RN d. 1873 and Lieutenant Archer Critchell, RM, d. 1857</p>",
  "images": [],
  "categories": ["Uncategorised"],
  "details": {
    "description": "White marble tablet on a black marble mount. The inscription is on a carved scroll draped over the cornice of the tablet. Above, is a trophy of an anchor, a banner and two crossed swords. A crest of an eagle's head engorged with a laurel wreath is carved on the base of the memorial.",
    "type": "Wall tablet",
    "position": "South wall",
    "materials": "Marble",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "T. Sharp",
    "vessel": ""  },
  "event": {
    "event":"Crimea War",
    "date": "1853-1856",
    "category": "19th century conflicts in Asia"  },
  "people": [{"name":"Critchell, William","age":"Unknown","dateofdeath":"19/9/1873","causeofdeath":"Unknown","rankOccupation":"Captain RN","organisation":"Royal Navy"},{"name":"Critchell, Archer Croft","age":"27","dateofdeath":"30/11/1857","causeofdeath":"Unknown","rankOccupation":"Lieutenant RM","organisation":"Royal Marine Light Infantry"}],
  "extra": {
    "notes": "",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "The Arts Society (NADFAS) 2004",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters