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Memorial: M1008

Monument in St Paul’s Cathedral, London commemorating Captain Edmund Moubray Lyons RN d. 1855

Location

St Paul's Cathedral, London, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN EDMUND MOUBRAY LYONS ROYAL NAVY / SON OF REAR ADMIRAL SIR EDMUND LYONS BART G.C.B. K.C.M. / COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HER MAJESTY'S FLEET IN THE BLACK SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN / UNDER WHOSE ORDERS HE ENGAGED THE BATTERIES OF SEVASTOPOL IN H.M.S. MIRANDA / ON THE 18TH JUNE 1855 AND THERE WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED, HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM THE COMMAND / OF THE SQUADRON IN THE SEA OF AZOV WHERE HIS BRILLIANT SUCCESSES WERE WARMLY ACKNOWLEDGED BY HIS SOVEREIGN / WHO MOURNED HIS LOSS AS ONE WHO WAS SO BRIGHT AN ORNAMENT TO THE NAVY / CUT OFF IN THE PRIME OF LIFE, THE PATH TO THE HIGHEST EARTHLY HONORS OPENING BEFORE HIM / HE DIED AS A HERO AND A CHRISTIAN SHOULD DIE / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN DEEPEST GRIEF BY THE OFFICERS AND SHIP'S COMPANY OF H.M.S. MIRANDA / WHO HAD SERVED UNDER HIM IN THE BALTIC AND THE SEA OF AZOV AND WHO LOVED AND REVERED HIM / HE DIED THE 23 JUNE 1855 AGED 36'

Details

Description: Above the inscription, a relief portrait within a wreath flanked by an ensign and anchor, above a depiction of HMS 'Miranda'.
Type: Wall monument
Position: South side of nave
Materials: White marble
Artists: Matthew Noble
Vessel: HMS Miranda

Event

Crimea War

Event Date

1853-1856

Event Category

19th century conflicts in Asia

People

Lyons, Edmund Moubray
Age: 36
Date of Death: 23/6/1855
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Died of an infected leg wound received on the 18th June during a naval bombardment of Sebastopol. He had been taken to the Naval Hospital at Therapia (now Tarabaya, Istanbul).
Bibliography: 'The Times' 4 July 1855 p. 9.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1982
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