Wall tablet in the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent commemorating Lieutenant Colonel William Boys, RM d. 1822
Location
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM HENRY BOYS ESQR / REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCIENT AND RESPECTABLE FAMILY OF THAT NAME / IN THIS COUNTY / AND LIEUT COLONEL OF HIS MAJESTY'S MARINE FORCES / HE DIED AT BROMPTON IN THIS PARISH / ON THE 16TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1822, AGED 61 YEARS / LEAVING HIS WIFE AND NINE CHILDREN TO LAMENT THE LOSS / OF A MOST AFFECTIONATE AND INDULGENT HUSBAND AND FATHER / DURING 44 YEARS SPENT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE / HE ACTED WITH THAT STEADY ATTENTION TO DISCIPLINE WHICH ASSURED RESPECT / WHILST SUAVITY OF MANNERS TO HIS EQUALS AND BENEVOLENCE TO HIS INFERIORS / RENDERED HIM ESTEEMED AND BELOVED / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HIS AFFLICTED WIDOW / ELIZABETH / RELICT OF THE ABOVE / AND ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ADMIRAL SIR HENRY HARVEY K.B. / DIED AT ROCHESTER ON THE 22 MARCH 1850 / AGED 80 YEARS / IN THE ADJACENT CHURCHYARD ARE DEPOSITED / THE REMAINS OF TWO OF THEIR CHILDREN / EDWARD SMITH AND AMELIA HARVEY / ANOTHER SON / WILLIAM HENRY, DIED AT PORTSMOUTH / ON THE 5TH OF FEBRUARY 1798 AGES 2 MONTHS AND WAS BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD / OF ST THOMAS IN THAT PLACE'
Details
Description: Carved in relief above the inscription panel with a union shield and trophy of arms at the foot of a draped urn Type: Wall tablet Position: North aisle Materials: Marble
People
Boys, William Henry Age: 61 Date of Death: 16/12/1822 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Colonel RM Organisation: Royal Marines
Wall tablet in St Peter’s Church, Shorwell, Isle of Wight, dedicated to Captain Richard Bennet RN d. 1818
Location
St Peter's Church, Shorwell, Isle of Wight, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO the Memory / of / RICHD H A BENNET Esqr / Captain of HM Royal Navy / OF / NORTH COURT /... / From his earliest Youth, he served his Country / with the Zeal & Distinction / worthy a British Officer / A long and painful illness, which he bore with / the most Christian Patience & Resignation / terminated his earthly Career / on the 11th October 1818. / In the 48th Year / of his Age.'
Ledger in St Nicholas’s Church, Ash, Kent commemorating Captain Joseph Westbeech RN d. 1811
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Ash, Kent, England
Transcript
‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / JOSEPH WESTBEECH, ESQR. / CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY / WHO DIED IN THIS PARISH / ON THE 9TH NOVEMBER 1811; AGED 53 YEARS / HE WAS AN EXCELLENT SEAMAN, / AND OFFICER / A GOOD AND BRAVE MAN / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED / BY AN AFFECTIONATE BROTHER, NOT WITH A VIEW TO RECORD / IMAGINARY VIRTUES OR TO DISPLAY OSTENTATIOUS GRIEF; BUT AS A / TRIBUTE OF HIS LOVE; AND WITH AN ERNEST / HOPE THAT NUMEROUS PROGENY MAY BE / INSPIRED BY THE ALMIGHTY GIVER OF ALL GOOD / TO IMITATE THE EXAMPLE OF A PARENT, / WHOSE LIFE AND AMIABLE MANNERS / PROCURED HIM GENERAL ESTEEM / AND WHOSE DEATH DIFFUSED / UNIVERSAL SYMPATHY AND SORROW / [on the apron] RENOVATED IN 1911 IN MEMORY OF / SEVERAL / AUNTS, UNCLES AND A GOOD MOTHER / ELIZABETH YOUNGER DAUGHTER OF / CAPTAIN WESTBEECH, BY HER SON / JOHN KEMPSTER J.P. / OF WESTBEECH, HERNE, IN THIS COUNTY'
Details
Description: Draped urn above inscription tablet, crossed palm branches below Type: Ledger Position: Nave Materials: White and grey marble
People
Westbeech, Joseph Age: 53 Date of Death: 9/11/1811 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: 'Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815' Spells his name Westbeach. Bibliography: J.R. Planche 'A Corner of Kent, or, some account of the parish of Ash-next-Sandwich, its historical sites and existing antiquities' (London,1864). Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating William Buyers RN d. 1885
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred / TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM BUYERS, A.B. / OF H.M.S. MIDGE / DIED AT HONG KONG / July 17th 1883 / AGED 21 YEARS / ERECTED BY HIS SHIPMATES / AS A TOKEN OF THEIR RESPECT'
Details
Type: Headstone Vessel: HMS Midge
People
Buyers, William Age: 21 Date of Death: 17/7/1885 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in the Grote Kerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands commemorating Admiral Egbert Meussen Cortenaer d. 1665
Location
Grote Kerk, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Rest of the World
Transcript
[On frieze] 'HEROI INCOMPARABILI EGBERTO BARTOLOMAEI A CORTENAER ARCHITHALLASSO. HOC VIRTUTIS ET GLORIOSAE MORTIS MONUMENTUM POSUERE NOBIL D PRAEFECTI REI MARITIMAE AD MOSAM' [on base] 'DE HELDT DER MAES. VERMINCKT AEN OOG / EN RECHTERHANDT / EN ECHTER 'T OOG VAN 'T ROER DE VUYST / VAN 'T VADERLANDT / DE GROOTE KORTENAER DE SCHRICK VAN / 'S VYANTS VLOOTEN. / D' ONTSLUYTER VAN DE SONDT LEYT IN DI T/ GRAF BESLOOTEN. G BRANDT'
Details
Description: A recumbent effigy of the deceased placed within an architectural surround of four Ionic columns and a pediment. A coat of arms placed in the pediment and carved military trophies behind the effigy. Type: Monument Materials: Marble Artists: Rombout Verhulst Vessel: Eendracht
Event
Battle of Lowestoft
Event Date
1665
Event Category
1665-1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War
People
Cortenaer, Egbert Meussen Age: 61 Date of Death: 1/6/1665 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Dutch Navy
Extra
Bibliography: William Laird Clowes 'The Royal Navy, A History' vol. ii, p. 262 (London 1996). Frits Scholten 'Sumptuous Memories: Studies in Seventeen-century Dutch tomb sculpture' p. 150.
Memorial at St Petrox Church, Dartmouth, Devon, commemorating Sir James Douglass d. 1898 and Percy Cuthbert Douglass Douglass, RN, d. 1917
Location
St Petrox Church, Dartmouth, Devon, England
Transcript
‘In Proud Memory / of / Sir James Nicholas Douglass / KT, F.R.S. / Died June 19th 1898, Aged 71. / And of Mary, his Wife / died June 22nd 1922. Aged 92 / Also of / their Three Beloved Grandsons / who fell in The Great War / Percy Cuthbert Douglass Douglass / FLT. Commdr. RN. / Died Dec. 10th 1917 at Salonica. Aged 31. / William Douglass James, Lieut. R.G.A. / Died Sept. 26th 1915 at Loos Aged 23 / Douglass Charles James / 2nd Lieut S. Staff Regt / Died Sept. 20th 1915 at Loos aged 20.'
Details
Type: Commemorative table Position: Wall of graveyard
People
Douglass, James Nicholas Age: 72 Date of Death: 1898 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Engineer in Chief Organisation: Trinity House Douglass, Percy Cuthbert Douglass Age: 31 Date of Death: 1917 Cause of Death: War Casualty Rank / Occupation: Flight Commander Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Sir James Douglass was originally buried at Bonchurch Old Church, Isle of Wight. He was reinterred at St Petrox, Dartmouth in August 1913. There is an additional memorial inside the church.
Memorial at St Matthias Church, The Savannah of St Ann, Barbados commemorating the officers and crew of HMS ‘Dauntless’ who died of yellow fever in 1852
Location
St Matthias Church, The Savannah of St Ann, Barbados, Rest of the World
Transcript
[West panel] 'Around this tomb rest the remains of fifteen officers and the Captain's Steward of H.M. Screw Frigate 'Dauntless' who, together with thirty eight seamen, ten marines, and ten boys buried in this garrison; and one officer, three seamen, six marines and one boy committed to the deep; all perished by yellow fever which broke out at sea on leaving the harbour of St. Thomas on the 10th November 1852' 'Petty Officers / T. HEAD Ship's Cook / J. RICKETTS Seaman, Schoolmaster / J. PAYNE Caulker / J. LIGHTFOOT Blacksmith / C. KNIGHT Gunner's mate / J. CATOR Captain Foretop / J. PAGE Sailmaker's mate / J. BUIST Captain Mizen top / J. STRINGNELL Captain Main top' [South panel] 'At this island a generous refuge was at once afforded and by the unceasing care of its civil, military and medical authorities the ship with her surviving crew restored to health was enabled to sail homewards on the 21st. March, 1853. Col. Sir William M.G. Colebrooke C.B., K.H. Governor in Chief. Lieut-Gen William Wood, C.B., Commanding the Troops, the Thirty Fourth Regiment. The Sixty Ninth Regiment. William Munro Esqre., Inspector General of Hospitals, Revd. William W. Jackson M.A., Chaplain of the Forces. William Denny, Esqre, Surgeon 34th Regiment. Alexander B. Cleland, Esqre, M.D., Surgeon 69th Regiment' [East panel] 'This hallowed spot was purchased and enclosed and this monument inscribed in honoured memory to all, by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Captain and surviving officers of the ship, and by the sorrowing relatives and Friends of those who rest below that their sacred and beloved remains should persist in undisturbed repose for the coming of that great day, when all graves shall be summoned to give up their dead' [North panel] 'Ross Moore FLOUD First Lieutenant Aet 37 Obiit 28th. Nov. 1852 / Charles KENT Second Lieutenant 28 2nd Dec. / Alfred NEALE Third Lieutenant 25 22nd Nov. / William SIMPSON Lieutenant 23 17 Nov. / Alexander LANGLANDS Chief Engineer 32 22nd Nov. / Arthur J. COUPER (buried off the port) Mate 21 17 Nov. / Henry I. NUTTALL Second Master 28 23 Nov. / Edwin DEATH Captain's Clerk 27 6th Dec. / George Gordon BUSHBY Midshipman 20 14th Dec. / Joseph CRISPIN Midshipman 15 1st. Dec. / Fleetwood Pellew HASWELL Masters Assistant 18 14th Dec. / Charles MARTIN Assistant Engineer 28 25th Dec./ St George G.S. DAVIS Assistant Engineer 25 2nd Dec. / James T. HENWOOD Assistant Engineer 21 18th Nov. / Walter W.H. RICHARDS Assistant Engineer 21 24th Nov. / William WELMAN Carpenter 40 15th Dec. / James VENABLES Captain's Steward 23 12th Dec. / Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord'
Details
Description: Curved top, a profile of the ship within a bronze rope border at the end. Type: Tomb Position: Churchyard Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Dauntless
People
Bushby, George Gordon Age: 20 Date of Death: 14/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Couper, Arthur C. Age: 21 Date of Death: 17/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Mate Organisation: Royal Navy Crispin, Joseph Age: 15 Date of Death: 1/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Davis, George G. S. Age: 25 Date of Death: 2/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Death, Edwin Age: 27 Date of Death: 6/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Captain's clerk Organisation: Royal Navy Floud, Ross Moore Age: 37 Date of Death: 28/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: 1st Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Haswell, Fleetwood Pellew Age: 18 Date of Death: 14/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Master's assistant Organisation: Royal Navy Henwood, James T. Age: 21 Date of Death: 18/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Kent, Charles Age: 28 Date of Death: 2/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: 2nd Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Langlands, Alexander Age: 32 Date of Death: 22/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Martin, Charles Age: 28 Date of Death: 25/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Neale, Alfred Age: 25 Date of Death: 22/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: 3rd Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Nuttall, Henry I. Age: 28 Date of Death: 23/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: 2nd Master Organisation: Royal Navy Richards, Walter W. H. Age: 21 Date of Death: 24/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Simpson, William Age: 23 Date of Death: 17/11/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Venables, James Age: 23 Date of Death: 12/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Captain's steward Organisation: Royal Navy Welman, William Age: 40 Date of Death: 15/12/1852 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Carpenter Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Captain J.H. Lawrence-Archer 'Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies' (London 1875); 'Illustrated London News' (5 Feb 1853) p. 347.
