Gravestone at Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man commemorating Hassard Leeke Stacpoole RM d. 1836
Location
Old Church, Kirk Braddan, Isle of Man
Transcript
'In MEMORY / of / HASSARD LEEKE STACPOOLE Esq. / Only son of the late Capt. / HASSARD STACPOOLE R.N. / formerly of the Royal Marines / in which Corps he highly distinguished himself / on the / River Gambia Africa / during the year 1830 / Obiit 22nd March 1836 / Aetat 28 years'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Stacpoole, Hassard Leeke Age: 28 Date of Death: 22/3/1836 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: 2nd Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Marines
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Notes: Captain Hassard Stacpoole RN d. 1814 Jamaica, killed in a duel. He married Isabella Leeke.
Wall tablet in Wimpole, Cambridgeshire dedicated to Charles Philip Yorke d. 1834
Location
St Andrew's Church, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, England
Transcript
'NEAR THIS PLACE ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS / OF THE RIGHT HONBLE CHARLES PHILIP YORKE / ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL / AND ONE OF THE TELLERS OF THE RECEIPT OF HIS MAJESTY'S EXCHEQUER / HE WAS THE SECOND SON OF THE HONBLE CHARLES YORKE / LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN / BY HIS SECOND WIFE AGNETA JOHNSON. / BORN MARCH 12TH 1764 MARRIED JULY 19TH [?] 1790 TO HARRIET / ELDEST DAUGHTER OF CHARLES MANNINGHAM OF THORPE CO. SURREY ESQR / BY WHOM HE HAD NO ISSUE. / AND DIED BELOVED AND LAMENTED MARCH 18TH 1834. / HE WAS EDUCATED AT HARROW SCHOOL AND ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, / WAS CALLED TO THE BAR IN 1789 AND WAS SOON AFTER APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE ISLE OF ELY. / HE SAT IN PARLIAMENT FROM 1790 TO 1818 / DURING TWENTY SUCCESSIVE YEARS OF WHICH PERIOD HE REPRESENTED THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGE / WHERE HIS SERVICES ARE STILL REMEMBERED WITH GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION. / HE HELD OFFICES OF SECRETARY OF WAR, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT / AND FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY UNDER HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE THIRD / WITH UNCEASING ATTENTION TO THE INTERESTS OF HIS COUNTRY / AND THE ACKNOWLEDGED APPROBATION AND ESTEEM/OF HIS SOVEREIGN. / DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LATTER OF THESE HIGH OFFICES, / THAT GREAT NATIONAL WORK THE BREAKWATER IN PLYMOUTH SOUND / WAS DECIDED UPON AND UNDERTAKEN. / A FRAGMENT OF MARBLE TAKEN FROM ITS SURFACE / HAS FURNISHED THIS MONUMENT TO HIS HONOURED MEMORY. / ET NOS ALIQUID. / IN THE VAULT BENEATH REST THE REMAINS OF / HARRIET / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES P YORKE / BORN JUNE 21ST 1763 MARRIED JULY 1ST 1790 / DIED MAY 10TH 1834'
Details
Description: Above the inscription tablet, a painted and gilded shield of arms flanked by oak and olive branches, a sarcophagus in relief with paw feet and anthemion acroteria at the top.
Type: Wall tablet Position: Chancel Materials: Black and white marble Artists: L. Denham
People
Yorke, Charles Philip Age: Date of Death: 18/3/1834 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: 1st Lord of the Admiralty Organisation:
Memorial in St George’s Church, Arreton, Isle of Wight commemorating Richard Holmes d. 1814
Location
St George's Church, Arreton, Isle of Wight, England
Transcript
‘TO THE MEMORY OF / RICHARD FLEMING WORSLEY HOLMES, ESQRE. / SECOND SON OF THE REVD. SIR HENRY WORSLEY HOLMES, BART. AND THE HONOURABLE LADY WORSLEY HOLMES. / ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT FOR THE BOROUGH OF NEWPORT IN THIS ISLAND. / WHO WAS UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN THE RIVER HAMBLE ON THE 26TH DAY OF JULY 1814, AGED 22 YEARS. / CALLED TO THE BOSOM OF HIS CREATOR, / WHEN HE HAD JUST ENTERED UPON THE CAREER OF A PROMISING AND USEFUL LIFE / HIS FATE AFFORDS AN IMPRESSIVE EXAMPLE OF THE UNCERTAINTY OF ALL WORLDLY HOPES. / BENEVOLENT, GENEROUS, AND SINCERE, /
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT ADORNED AND THE VIRTUES THAT EXALTED HIS CHARACTER, / ENDEARED HIM ALIKE TO THE AFFECTIONS OF HIS FRIENDS, AND THE HEARTS OF HIS FAMILY. / THE TEARS THAT A WEEPING MULTITUDE SHED OVER HIS GRAVE / WERE A WELL MERITED AND EXPRESSIVE TRIBUTE / TO THE WORTH AND EXCELLENCE OF HIS CHARACTER.’
Details
Description: In relief above the inscription tablet, a mourning female with a wrecked ship to the right and a broken anchor on the left. Type: Wall tablet Artists: Sir Richard Westmacott
People
Holmes, Richard Fleming Worsley Age: Date of Death: 1814 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
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Notes: Drowned when his boat overturned in the Hamble. Bibliography: Nikilaus Pevsner and David Lloyd 'The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight' (Harmondsworth, 1967).
Memorial at All Saints’ and St Margaret’s Church, Pakefield, Suffolk commemorating Arthur Chandler, Trinity Pilot, d. 1920
Location
All Saints' and St Margaret’s Church, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Arthur William Chandler, late Trinity House Pilot for 35 years, also served at Lieut. RNVR during the Great War 1914-18 who died 17 July 1920 aged 70 years. Also Maria, wife of the above and only daughter of the late George and Rhoda SEALER of Pakefield who died 1 Jan 1924 aged 70.'
Details
Position: Churchyard
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Chambers, Arthur William Age: 70 Date of Death: 17/7/1920 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Trinity Pilot. Lieutenant RNVR Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Trinity House
Memorial in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London commemorating Admiral Sir George Pocock RN d. 1792
Location
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England
Transcript
'SACRED to the Memory of SIR GEORGE POCOCK, K.B. who entered into the Naval Service of his country under the Auspices of his Uncle LORD TORRINGTON. And who emulating his great Example rose with high Reputation to the Rank of ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, His abilities as an officer, stood confessed by his conduct upon a variety of occasions But his Gallant and Intrepid Spirit was more fully displayed By the distinguished Part he bore at the taking of Geriah And in leading the Attack at the Reduction of Chandernagore And afterwards when with an inferior Force, he defeated the French Fleet under M. D'ACHE, In three general Engagments Showing what British Valour can achieve, aided by proffessional skill and Experience. Indefatigably active and persevering in his own Duty, he enforced a strict observance of it in others. At the same time with so much mildness, with such condescending Manners, As to gain the Love and Esteem of All who served under Him; Whose Merits he was not more quick in discerning, or more ready to reward Though he was ever backward in acknowledging his own. Returning from his sucessful career in the East, He was appointed to command the Fleet upon the Expedition against the Havannah, By his united Efforts in the conquest of which He added fresh Laurels to his own Brow, and a valuable Possession to this kingdom. Upon retiring from Publick Employment He spent the remainder of his Life in a State of dignified Ease and Splendour; Hospitable and generous to his friends and exhibiting a striking Picture of CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE By his Countenance and Support of Publick Charities, and by his Liberalities to the Poor. A Life so honourable to himself and so endeared to his Friends and Family was happily extended to the Age of 86 When he resigned it with the same tranquil and serene Mind which peculiarly marked and adorned the whole course of it. He left by SOPHIA his wife, Daughter of GEORGE FRANCIS DRAKE Esqr, and who was first married to COMMODORE DENT a SON and a DAUGHTER GEORGE POCOCK Esqr who caused this monument to be erected; and SOPHIA married to JOHN EARL POULET'
Details
Description: Britannia holding a thunderbolt in her right hand and in her left, a medallion portrait of the admiral. Type: Monument Position: Chapel of St John the Evangelist Date Erected: 1796 Artists: John Bacon, the elder
People
Pocock, George Age: 86 Date of Death: 13/4/1792 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Blue Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Buried in family vault at Twickenham. V&A cuttings III p. 771 - 'The monument is from the chisel of Bacon. It is erected at the expense of his son George Pocock, Esq. and the inscription, which does great justice to the Admiral's character, is from the pen of the Rev. Dr Jones, Archdeacon of Hereford.' Design in V&A E1534-1931.
Bibliography: John Physick 'Designs for English Sculpture 1680-1860' (London, 1969) pp. 158-9. Recorder: A.J. Richardson 1980
Memorial formerly at the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground commemorating Admiral Sir Robert Stopford d. 1847
Location
Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of / Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford GCB GCMG / Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom / Master and Governor of Greenwich Hospital who / died at Richmond on 25th June 1847 / in the 80th year of his age and is interred / in the vault beneath / He served his country zealously and was a pattern / of true piety and Christian benevolence'
Details
Position: Mausoleum
People
Stopford, Robert Age: 79 Date of Death: 25/6/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Royal Navy
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Notes: Destroyed in 1935-45 War. Inscription in PRO. Greenwich Hospital Memorial inscriptions. 99618.
