Tomb with effigy at St Thomas’s Church, Cricket St Thomas commemorating Nelson’s brother the Reverend William Earl Nelson, Duke of Bronte d. 1835 formerly a naval chaplain
Location
St Thomas's Church, Cricket St Thomas, Somerset, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE / REVEREND WILLIAM EARL NELSON DUKE OF BRONTE / WHO WAS BORN THE 26TH [?] APRIL 1747 AND DIED 28TH FEBRUARY 1835 / HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED IN ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL / BY THE SIDE OF HIS GALLANT BROTHER HORATIO VISCOUNT NELSON / ALSO SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF HORATIO NELSON / SON OF SAMUEL LORD BRIDPORT AND OF CHARLOTTE HIS WIFE / WHO WAS BORN JULY 25TH 1822 AND DIED 19TH JAN 1826 / AND OF HIS BROTHER HORATIO NELSON / WHO WAS BORN APRIL 27TH 1826 AND DIED 19TH JANUARY 1832 / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY CHARLOTTE MARY LADY BRIDPORT / AS A TOKEN OF AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE TO HER FATHER / AND OF TENDER LOVE AND RESPECT FOR HER TWO CHILDREN'
Details
Description: Reclining effigy in clergyman's robes, two children and angel in relief above. Type: Effigy Position: Crypt Materials: Marble
People
Nelson, William Age: Date of Death: 28/2/1835 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Chaplain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Tower at Portesham, Dorset, commemorating Vice-Admiral Thomas Hardy d. 1839
Location
Portesham, Dorset, England
Details
Description: Octagonal tower Type: Tower Date Erected: 1844 Artists: Arthur Henry Dyke Troyte
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Hardy, Thomas Masterman Age: 70 Date of Death: 20/9/1839 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Erected by public subscription in 1844. Bibliography: 'The Builder' vol ii (1844) p. 553; 'An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset' vol. ii, part 2 (London, 1970) p. 242.
Memorial Ledger at St Mura’s Church, Fahan, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, commemorating Horatio Nelson, Midshipman, RN d. 1811
Location
St Mura's Church, Fahan, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland
Transcript
'In memory of / HORATIO NELSON / late Midshipman of H.M.S. Endymion / an amiable youth / who breathed his last at Fahan House / in the 18th year of his age. / Could friendship have prolonged his days / he had lived. Born at Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk. / Died November 17th 1811. / Nomenq. erit indelebile nostris
Details
Type: Ledger Position: Graveyard Vessel: HMS Endymion
People
Nelson, Thomas Horatio Age: 18 Date of Death: 17/11/1811 Cause of Death: Unknown illness Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Latin motto-Ovid 'Metamorphoses' xv, 875. ‘My name shall never be forgotten.’ Gravestone erected by Captain Sir William Bolton. Fahan House, Fahan, was the home of Captain Sir William Bolton.
Memorial in St Endellion, Cornwall commemorating Matthew Trevan d. 1885
Location
St Endellieta's Church, St Endellion, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / FREDERICK TREVAN / OF PORT ISAAC / BORN FEBy. 24th 1803 / DIED FEBy 22nd 1885 / AND / ELIZABETH MOON / WIFE OF / FREDERICK TREVAN / BORN JUNE 24th 1813 / DIED NOV. 18th 1884 / ALSO / MATTHEW TREVAN / STAFF SURGEON ROYAL NAVY / ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE / BORN DEC. 21st 1841 / DIED NOVR 19th 1889'
Details
People
Trevan, Matthew Age: 48 Date of Death: 19/11/1889 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Staff Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy
A captured gun dedicated to those of HMS ‘Doris’ who died in the Second Boer War 1889 – 1902.
Location
Devonport Park, Plymouth, England
Transcript
'READY . AYE . READY', 'THIS GUN CAPTURED FROM THE BOERS / DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902, / HAS BEEN ERECTED HERE BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF H.M.S. DORIS / IN MEMORY OF THE SHIPMATES WHO / LOST THEIR LIVES IN THAT CAMPAIGN'', 'J.H. PLUMBE MAJOR R.M.L.I / C.A.E. HUDDART MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / STRUAN ROBERTSON MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / JAMES MENZIES MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / LIONEL LLOYD MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / JOHN BOYLE PRIVATE R.M.L.I. / FRANCIS DORAN PRIVATE R.M.L.I.', ' FRANCIS COLEMAN A.B. / MATTHEW WISE A.B. / ALBERT G. EDWARDS A.B. / JOHN E. HOOK ORD. / WILLIAM LOCKETT STOKER / W.J. PHILLIPS 2ND S.B.S. / LEWIS WELLS 2ND DOM.'
Details
Description: A captured field gun (pom-pom) on a pedestal of Dartmoor granite. Inscription on three panels surrounded by rope twist borders, Motto above. Type: Wall tablet Vessel: HMS Doris
Event
Second Boer War
Event Date
1899-1902
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Africa
People
Boyle, John Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry Coleman, Francis Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Doran, Francis Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Private Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry Edwards, Albert G. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Hook, John E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Huddart, Cymbeline Alfonso Edric Age: 18 Date of Death: 25/11/1899 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Midshipman Organisation: Royal Navy Lloyd, Lionel Rodney Age: 19 Date of Death: 27/4/1900 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Midshipman Organisation: Royal Navy Lockett, William Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy Menzies, James Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1901 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Midshipman Organisation: Royal Navy Phillips, William J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Steward Organisation: Royal Navy Plumbe, J.H. Age: 41 Date of Death: 25/11/1899 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Major Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry Robertson, Struan Age: Unknown Date of Death: 25/2/1900 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Midshipman Organisation: Royal Navy Wells, Lewis Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Domestic? Organisation: Royal Navy Wise, Matthew Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1899-1902 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: To the fourteen man of the 'Doris' who died during the South African Campaign 1900. The gun was captured from the Boers at Paardeberg. It is reported that Major Plumbe's dog sat with his body for 6 hours. Bibliography: 'Military Chest' July 1893. Recorder: David Saunders, B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Gravestone at All Saints Church, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk commemorating Thomas Bolton, d. 1834
Location
All Saints Church, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England
Transcript
THOMAS BOLTON / of / BURNHAM WESTGATE / Esquire / Died 17th October 1854 / Aged 81 Years
Details
Type: Gravestone
People
Bolton, Thomas Age: 81 Date of Death: 17/10/834 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Coal and corn merchant Organisation: Unknown
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Notes: Nelson's brother-in-law born 11th December 1752. He married Susannah Nelson on 5 August 1780. Boulton [also Boulton} was a coal and corn merchant in Wells-next-the-Sea. They had five children: Catharine, Elizabeth Anne, Susanna, Thomas Nelson (2nd Earl Nelson of Trafalgar and of Merton) and George.
Horatia, Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton’s daughter, went to live with her uncle, Thomas Bolton in Burnham Market, following her mother’s death in 1815.
Memorial at Camberwell, London commemorating Robert Waith, Paymaster to the Navy d. 1685
Location
Camberwell, London, England
Transcript
'Here lye the Bodys of ROBERT WAITH Gent Paymaster of the Navy to King CHARLES the Second who dyed on the 28th day of Oct, 1685 & of ELIZABETH his WIFE who dyed on the 13th day of Aprill 1667 & of ROBT. WAITH Gent, their eldest Son and Heir who dyed on the 16th Dec. 1686 in the 25th yeare of his Age. And of ROBT WAITH Gent, his Son who dyed on the 5th day of Oct. 1686 Resurgimus'
Details
People
Waith, Robert Age: Date of Death: 28/10/1685 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Paymaster of the Navy Organisation:
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Bibliography: John Le Neve 'Monumenta Anglicana', vol.iii, p.71, (London, 1718).
Wall tablet in Holy Trinity Church, Gosport, Hampshire commemorating William Rogers d. 1858
Location
Holy Trinity Church, Gosport, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM AUGUSTUS ROGERS, / SON OF MR. WILLIAM ROGERS, OF GOSPORT, / AND COMMANDER OF THE SHIP / "STARTLED FAWN" OF LIVERPOOL, / WHO FELL A VICTIM OF CHOLERA WHILE IN / THE ZEALOUS DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTIES / AT CALCUTTA, 28TH JUNE 1858, AGED 36 YEARS. / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE OWNERS OF THE / SHIP AS A TOKEN OF REGARD AND ESTEEM / FOR ONE WHOSE LOSS THEY DEEPLY DEPLORE.'
Details
Description: Inscription carved on a white, hexagonal, stone wall tablet, with text painted black. Type: Wall tablet Position: South side of the nave Materials: Stone Vessel: Startled Fawn
People
Rogers, William Augustus Age: 36 Date of Death: 28/6/1858 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
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