Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India commemorating Captain Richard Laws, d. 1834
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Beneath lie the remains of / Captain Richard L. Laws / late commander of the ship 'Dunvegan Castle'; / who died 2d August 1834 aged 39 years, 7 months / leaving a wife and 4 children to lament the / untimely loss of an affectionate husband and a / fond father. This Monument is erected / by his afflicted widow.'
Details
Vessel: Dunvegan Castle
People
Laws, Richard L. Age: 39 Date of Death: 2/8/1832 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.114.
Obelisk at Victoria Park, Portsmouth commemorating the officers and men of HMS ‘Royal Sovereign’ who died during the commission of 1899-1902
Location
Victoria Park, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
[Right hand side of plinth] 'HMS / ROYAL SOVEREIGN / 1899 - 1902' [Front] 'ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN / IN MEMORY OF / THOSE KILLED IN / A GUN ACCIDENT ON BOARD / HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN / OFF PLATCA / NOVEMBER 9TH 1901 / WHILST DISCHARGING THEIR / DUTY.', 'CAPT. H.W. SPURWAY, R.M.A. / C. PRIMMER CH. ARMr / F. OSBORNE P.O. 1st Cl / L. COLBORNE ARMr / H. GARDNER PO 2nd Cl / C. CONNOR Ld SEAm', 'ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE / WHO DIED DURING THE / COMMISSION', 'MR R.E. JOHNSTON M.D. / H.J. CUDDLEYFORD M.A. W.W. MASON A.B. / R. HEARD CH. STO. C. NEWMAN A.B. / W. WALKER P.O. 1TC D. RUNDLE STO. / A. MITCHELL A.B. A. JORDAN STO.'
Details
Description: Lead letters. Type: Obelisk Materials: Stone Artists: White Bros. Vessel: HMS Royal Sovereign
People
Colbourne, L. Age: Date of Death: 9/11/1901 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Chief Armourer Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Connor, C. Age: Date of Death: 9/11/1901 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Leading Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Cuddleyford, H.J. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master at Arms Organisation: Royal Navy Gardner, H. Age: Date of Death: 9/11/1901 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer 1st Class Organisation: Royal Navy Heard, R. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1900 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Chief Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy Johnston, R.E. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon Organisation: Royal Navy Jordon, A. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy Mason, W.W. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1900 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Mitchell, A. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Newman, C. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Osborne, F. Age: Date of Death: 9/11/1901 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer 1st Class Organisation: Royal Navy Primmer, C. Age: Date of Death: 9/11/1901 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Chief Armourer Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Rundle, D. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy Spurway, Humphry W. Age: 26 Date of Death: 9/11/1901 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Captain RMA Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Walker, W. Age: Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: The incident was caused by the premature ignition of a cartridge in a six inch gun before the breech had been closed. Captain Spurway and the men were buried at sea. Bibliography: 'Evening News' 11 Nov. 1901 Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Wall tablet in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Fareham, Hampshire commemorating Commander Hector Loring RN d. 1848
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Fareham, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / HECTOR LORING / COMMANDER IN THE ROYAL NAVY / WHO DIED AT LISBON ON THE 7TH MARCH 1848 / AGED 40 YEARS / AND THUS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN ONE YEAR / WAS REUNITED TO HIS BELOVED WIFE / WHERE TOGETHER THEY DWELL IN JOYFUL HOPE [OF] / THE RESURRECTION TO ETERNAL LIFE / THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. /Surely, I come quickly. Amen. / Even so come Lord Jesus. Rev. 22. 20.'
Details
Description: Plain wall tablet. Type: Wall tablet
People
Loring, Hector Age: 40 Date of Death: 7/3/1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Died in Lisbon. Bibliography: Peter Clissold 'More Memorials in the Solent Area', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 67, p. 369 (Greenwich, 1981). Recorder: B. Tomlinson 2018 Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Monument in Bunbury, Cheshire commemorating George Beeston d. 1601
Location
St Boniface's Church, Bunbury, Cheshire, England
Transcript
‘H.S.E. GEORGIUS BEESTON EQUES AURATUS VIRTUTIS ET VERITATIS CULTOR JUVENTUTE BELLICUS ARTIBUS INUTUTUS AB INVICTISSIMUS REGE HENRIES VIII CUM OBSIDERET BOLONIAM IN COHORTUM PENSIONARUORUM COOPTUS MERUIT SUB EODEM REGE EDWARDO VI IN PRAELIO CONTRA SCOTOS APUD MUSCKLEBOROW POSTEA SUB EODEM REGE MARIA & ELIZABTHA BELLIS NAVALIBUS VELUT CLASSE PREFECTUS VEL SUBPREFECTUS AQUA POST PROFLIGATAM POTENTISSIMAM ILLAM CLASSAM HISPAMIXCA 1588 EQUESTRI DIGNITATE ORNATUS EST JAMQUE INGRAVESCENTE AETATE CUM FIDEM PRINCIPIBUS FORTITUDINEM HOSTIBUS EGREGIE PROBASSET DEO GRATUS BONISQUE CHARUS CHRISTUM IN CHRICT A 1602 AETATIS SUAE 99 OBDORMUIT UT IN IPSO MELIUS RESURGAT UNAQUE CUM ILLE REQUIEVAT CHARISSIMA CONJUX ALICIA FILIA THOMAS DAVENPORT DE HENBURY ARMIGERE MATER SANCTISSIMA PUDICISSIMA ET ERGA PAUPERES = QUIAE CUM FACTO MATRIMONIO 66 ANNOS VIXISSET VIROQUE TRES FILIOS JOHANNEM HUGONEM & HUGONEM TOTIDEMQUE FILIAS ANNAM JANAM ET DOROTHEA PEPERISSET ANNO 1591 AET SUAE 80 IN CELESTAM PATRIAM MIGRAVIT CUM CHRISTI AETERNAM VICTURA PARENTIBUS OPTIMIS & CHARES FILII HUGONIS BEESTON JUNIORES ARMIGERI RE...TORIS GRATIS OMNIS REVENTIONEM CORONOE TAM IN COMI: PALATINO QUAM ION COMITATIBUS NORTH WALLIAE H.M.P.’ [Translation] Here lies buried George Beeston, knight, a promoter of valour and truth; having been bro ght up from his youth in the arts of war [he was) chosen one of his company of pensioners by the invincible King Henry the Eighth, when he besieged Boulogne [1544]; he merited [the same] under Edward the Sixth in the battle against the Scots at Musselburgh [1547]. Afterwards under the same King, under Mary, and under Elizabeth, in the naval engagements as captain or vice-captain of the fleet, by whom, after that most mighty Spanish fleet of 1588, had been vanquished, he was honoured with the order of knighthood; and now, his years pressing heavily on him, when he had admirably approved his integrity to princes, and his bravery to his adversaries, acceptable to God, and dear to good men, and long expecting Christ, in the year 1601 and in the 99th of his age, he fell asleep in Him, so that he may rise again in Him with joy. And together with him rests a most beloved wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Davenport of Henbury, esquire, a matron most holy, chaste, and liberal to the poor, who, when she had lived in matrimony 66 years, and had borne to her husband three sons, John, Hugh, and Hugh, and as many daughters, Ann, Jane, and Dorothy, passed into the heavenly country in the year 1591 and in the 80th year of her age, with Christ for ever to live. The dutifulness of their son Hugh Beeston, esquire, the younger, Receiver General of all the revenues of the Crown as well as in the county palatine of Chester as in the counties of North Wales, set up this monument to parents most excellent and beloved. [Under arch] ‘HUGH BEESTON EQUES AURATUS GEORGII BEESTON EQUITIS AURATI FILIUS MORTALITATIS MEMOR ET SPE CERTA IN CHRISTO RESURGENDI HOER PARENTIBUS SIBI ET GEORGIO BEESTON FILIO UNICO ORDINIS ITIDEM EQUESTRIS JUVENI IMMATURA MORTE PROH DOLAR PREREPIT. MONUMENTUM POSUIT OBIIT HUGO PATER AN. SAL. MDC[...] GEORGIUS AUTEM FILIUS MDCX1’ [Translation] Hugh Beeston, knight, son of George Beeston, knight, mindful of mortality, and in certain hope of rising again in Christ, placed this monument to his parents, himself, and George Beeston an only son, of the same knightly order, a youth, alas! Snatched away by a too early death. Hugh, the father, died in the year of our salvation, 1627, but George, the son, 1611.
Details
Description: Recumbent effigy in armour, on a table tomb carved with three shields of arms. The figure is within an arch flanked by pillars on plinths. An inscription on the back wall with arms above. At the top, pyramids supporting shields of arms, a second inscription between them with armorials above. This inscription tablet set within a border carved with military trophies, a cannon and a ship. Type: Monument Vessel: Dreadnought
Event
Spanish Armada
Event Date
1588
Event Category
1584-1604 Conflict between England and Spain
People
Beeston, George Age: 99 Date of Death: 1601 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Naval Commander Organisation: British fleet
Extra
Notes: Commanded 'Dreadnought' during Armada campaign 1588. Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996) p. 30.
Wall tablet in Church of St Peter and St Paul, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire commemorating Lieutenant Richard Marks RN d. 1847
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / THE REVEREND RICHARD MARKS / TWENTY FOUR YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH, / WHOSE / SINGULAR AND EVENTFUL HISTORY / RECORDED BY HIS OWN PEN IN THE / "RETROSPECT" / AND VARIOUS OTHER WRITINGS / HAS BEEN MADE A BLESSING TO THOUSANDS / AND WHOSE / HOLY LIFE AND FAITHFUL MINISTRY / WILL LONG BE HAD IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE / BY THE FLOCK / TOWHOM HE DECLARED THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED / BY HIS SURVIVING FRIENDS AND PARISHIONERS. / HE WAS BORN AT NORTH CRAWLEY IN THIS COUNTY DEC. 31ST 1778 / AND CLOSED A LIFE OF PIETY, USEFULNESS AND HONOR / IN THIS VILLAGE 22ND MAY 1847'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: South aisle Materials: Grey marble
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803 - 1815 Napoleonic Wars
People
Marks, Richard Age: Date of Death: 22/5/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER. Before being ordained, Richard Marks served in the Royal Navy and was present at the Battle of Trafalgar. He was commissioned lieutenant on 2nd November 1805 and resigned on 2nd April 1814. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Monument in St Paul’s Cathedral, London commemorating Admiral Richard Howe d. 1799
Location
St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Transcript
'ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE, TO THE MEMORY OF ADMIRAL EARL HOWE, K.G. / IN TESTIMONY OF THE GENERAL SENSE OF HIS GREAT AND MERITORIOUS SERVICES / IN THE COURSE OF A LONG AND DISTINGUISHED LIFE / IN PARTICULAR FOR THE BENEFIT / DERIVED TO HIS COUNTRY BY THE BRILLIANT VICTORY WHICH HE OBTAINED / OVER THE FRENCH FLEET OFF USHANT, 1 JUNE 1794 / HE WAS BORN 19 MARCH 1726, AND DIED 5 AUGUST 1799, IN HIS 74TH YEAR', 'GIBRALTAR RELIEVED OCT 11 1782', 'THE FRENCH FLEET DEFEATED JUNE FIRST 1794'
Details
Description: Full-length figure of Howe in uniform holding a telescope, leaning on the beak of a galley attended by History and Victory, a lion on his left, Britannia seated behind him. Type: Monument Position: South transept Materials: Marble Date Erected: 1811 Artists: John Flaxman
Event
Relief of Gibraltar 1782; Glorious First of June 1794
Event Category
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War, 1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Howe, Richard Age: 73 Date of Death: 5/8/1799 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: See PAD3368. Date of contract 26/4/1803, value £6, 300. Bibliography: K.A. Esdaile 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1946) p. 69; Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964) p. 160; 'Naval Chronicle' vol. 27, p. 500 and frontispiece, plate CCCLXVI (London, 1812) Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1972
Window in St John’s Church, Shottesbrooke commemorating Captain Nicholas Vansittart, d. 1859
Location
Church of St John The Baptist, Shottesbrooke, Windsor and Maidenhead, England
Details
Description: Depicts the Ascension. Type: Window Vessel: HMS Magicienne
Event
Second China War
Event Date
1857-1860
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Vansittart, Nicholas Age: Date of Death: 1859 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: The Builder 1863 p. 319 'A large stained-glass window has just been placed in Shottesbrook Church as a memorial of the late Captain Nicholas Vansittart of her Majesty's ship 'Magicienne', who died of wounds received at the storming of the Taku forts in China. The window has been erected by his brother officers as a token of the esteem in which they held him. The design is "The Ascension" by Messrs. Hardman of Birmingham, and the window has been fitted in by Messrs Allwright, plumbers &c. of Knowlhill. We believe the cost will be between 300l and 400l." Vansittart was wounded during the attack on the Peiho Forts 28 June 1859 and subsequently died.
Memorial at Maulden to Captain Charles Moore RN d. 1870
Location
St Mary's Church, Maulden, Bedfordshire, England
Transcript
'IN A VAULT IN THE CHURCHYARD / ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF / CHARLES MOORE, / CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY; / FOR UPWARDS OF 50 YEARS RESIDENT IN THIS PARISH; / WHO DIED NOVEMBER 10TH 1870, AGED 78 YEARS. / ALSO OF ELIZABETH ANN, HIS WIFE, / WHO DIED MARCH 25TH 1857 AGED 50 YEARS. / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED / BY THE SURVIVING CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE, / AS A LAST TRIBUTE OF AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE. / "THE LORD REDEEMETH THE SOUL OF HIS SERVANTS" / PSALM XXXIV, 12.'
Details
Description: Inscription tablet flanked by a foul anchor and a cannon barrel. Arms above. Type: Wall tablet Position: West end of nave Materials: Marble Artists: E.J. Physick
People
Moore, Charles Age: 78 Date of Death: 10/11/1870 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Gravestone at East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich commemorating Commander Robert Hussey Moubray RN d. 1880
Location
East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'Erected by his sorrowing widow to the beloved memory of Robert Hussey Moubray Commander RN. Son of the late Captain Moubray of the Royal Hospital Greenwich who departed this life 25 Feb 1880'
Details
Type: Gravestone
People
Moubray, Robert Hussey Age: Date of Death: 25/2/1880 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: See M2397 for the memorial to his father and brothers. George Henry Moubray 1811-1887 (purser RN) was a half brother. Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1988
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