Monument at Great Malvern to Lieutenant Thomas Woodyatt RN, d. 1841
Location
Priory Church of St Mary and St Michael, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / THOMAS WOODYATT ESQUIRE / OF HOLLY MOUNT IN THIS PARISH LATE A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY / ELDEST SURVIVING SON OF GEORGE WOODYATT OF WORCESTER MD BY HANNAH HIS WIFE / ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THOMAS FREEMAN OF SUCKLEY IN THIS COUNTY ESQUIRE / AT AN EARLY AGE HE ENTERED THE NAVY IN WHICH FOR SIXTEEN YEARS / HE WAS EMPLOYED IN ACTIVE AND VARIED SERVICE UNTIL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR / ENDUED WITH TALENTS OF NO COMMON ORDER / AND OF A DISPOSITION NATURALLY ARDENT AND LIBERAL / HE WAS FOREMOST IN PROMOTING EVERY SCHEME OF UTILITY AND IMPROVEMENT / WHICH COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELFARE OR ORNAMENT OF HIS NEIGHBOURHOOD / WARM HEARTED GENEROUS AND SINCERE / AND FREE IN A REMARKABLE DEGREE FROM THE BANE OF SELFISHNESS / HE SPARED NOT HIMSELF SO THAT HE MIGHT SERVE AND PROFIT OTHERS / HE MARRIED IN 1818 HARRIET / THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF MICHAEL BIDDULPH ESQUIRE / OF LEDBURY IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORD AND COPTON HALL IN THIS COUNTY / BY WHOM HE HAD NO ISSUE / HE DIED GREATLY LAMENTED ON THE 6TH DAY OF JUNE 1841 / IN THE 50TH YEAR OF HIS AGE / AND HIS REMAINS WEREBY HIS OWN DESIRE INTERRED IN THE ADJOINING CHURCHYARD / THIS MEMORIAL OF AFFECTION WAS ERECTED / BY HIS SURVIVING WIDOW WHO IN MUCH SORROW DEDICATES THIS MARBLE / TO RECORD HER OWN BEREAVEMENT AND HER HUSBAND'S WORTH. / HIS WIDOW DIED ON THE 31ST JANUARY 1863 IN HER 88TH YEAR / AND WAS BURIED IN THE SAME VAULT. '
Details
Description: Stele with anthemion acroteria at the top. Above the inscription tablet, a relief of seated mourning female figure, beside a draped urn with a relief portrait of Woodyatt. Type: Wall monument Position: Aisle Materials: White marble Artists: Peter Hollins
Event
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Woodyatt, Thomas Age: 50 Date of Death: 6/6/1841 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Commissioned Lieutenant 7 Feb 1811 Photographer: Norman Hammond
Tomb in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh commemorating Admiral Alexander Graeme d. 1818
Location
Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transcript
'HERE LIES INTERRED / ALEXANDER GRAEME / OF GRAEMESHALL / ONE OF THE ADMIRALS OF THE WHITE / SQUADRON IN HIS MAJESTYS FLEET / BORN AT GRAEMESHALL 9TH DECR 1741 / DIED AT EDINBURGH 5TH AUGUST 1818'
Details
Type: Chest-tomb Position: 50 yards north west of church Materials: Sandstone
People
Graeme, Alexander Age: 77 Date of Death: 5/8/1818 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
Gravestone at Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed commemorating John Hogg d. 1835
Location
Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England
Transcript
'Sacred / To the Memory of / JOHN HOGG / MASTER MARINER; / WHO DEPARTED THIS / LIFE THE 25TH JANUARY 1835 / AGED 67 YEARS / ASLO / ANN HOGG / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE / DIED OCTOBER 17TH 1844 / AGED 76 YEARS'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Hogg, John Age: 76 Date of Death: 17/10/1844 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation:
Gravestone in Rame, Cornwall dedicated to William Hancock d. 1915
Location
St German's Church, Rame, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'In / Loving Memory / of / WILLIAM R HANCOCK / TRINITY PILOT / DEARLY BELOVED HUSBAND OF / ANNIE HANCOCK / BORN APRIL 1ST 1845 / DIED MARCH 20TH 1915 / ALSO ANNIE / THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE / BORN SEPTEMBER 9TH 1852 / DIED MAY 1ST 1949'
Details
Description: Anchor and chain on rocks in relief above the inscription.
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Hancock, William R. Age: Date of Death: 20/3/1915 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Trinity Pilot Organisation:
Gravestone at Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man commemorating Caesar Archibald d. 1847
Location
Old Church, Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man
Transcript
'Sacred / to the memory of / Caesar ARCHIBALD / of Douglas shipwright / formerly of Peel / who departed this life the 5th of Novr 1847 / aged 43 years / Blessed are the dead which dieth in / the Lord / also of Joseph his son who / died the 28th Febry 1842 / aged 5 months / also of Caesar / son of the above named who / died the 7th of April 1851 aged 13 years / also to the memory / of Mary ARCHIBALD alias KERMODE / loveing [sic] and beloved wife of / the above named Caesar ARCHIBALD who / departed this / life in the 3rd of Decr / 1865 aged 63 years / the languishing head is at rest / the aching and thinking is o'er / Her quiet immovable breast / is heaved by affliction no more'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Archibald, Caesar Age: 43 Date of Death: 5/11/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipwright Organisation:
Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Captain George Probyn HEIC and Lieutenant Francis Corbin Probyn RN, both d. 1855
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / CAPTN GEORGE PROBYN, / OF THE EAST INDIA Cos / LATE MARITIME SERVICE. / AN ELDER BROTHER OF THE TRINITY HSE / AND A J OF PEACE / FOR THE COUNTY OF MDSX. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / AT HIS RESIDENCE, 21 BRYANSTONE Sqre, ON THE 25TH NOVEMBER 1855, / IN HIS 59TH YEAR OF AGE. / ALSO IN MEMORY OF ALICIA, HIS WIFE, / DAUGHTER OF SIR FRANCIS WORKMAN MACHNATEN, BART. / SHE DIED AT HOMBURG NEAR FRANKFURT ON THE MAINE. / ON THE 9TH SEPTEMBER 1864, AGED 57. / AND IS BURIED HERE. / ALSO IN MEMORY OF / FRANCIS CORBIN PROBYN / LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY. / 2ND SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED / GEORGE PROBYN / AND OF ALICIA HIS WIFE / WHO DIED AT SEA ON HIS PASSAGE, / FROM THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA / ON THE 24TH DAY OF APRIL 1855, / AGED 26 YEARS. / O DEATH! WHERE IS THY STING, O GRAVE!/WHERE IS THY VICTORY? THE STING OF DEATH / IS SIN AND THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. / BUT THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US THE / VICTORY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.'
Details
Description: Flat slab and large pedestal. Pedestal has two anchors in the corners. Type: Slab Position: 12,834/104/? Artists: E.M. Lander
Event
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Probyn, George Age: 59 Date of Death: 25/11/1855 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company, Trinity House Probyn, Francis Corbin Age: 26 Date of Death: 24/04/1855 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
