Monument in St Mary’s Church, Betteshanger, Kent commemorating Vice-Admiral of the White, Salmon Morrice RN d. 1740
Location
St Mary's Church, Betteshanger, Kent, England
Transcript
'NEAR to this Place is Interr'd SALMON MORRICE Esq VICE ADMIRAL of His / MAJESTY'S WHITE SQUADRON, who Dyed the 25th March 1740. Aged 68 Years. Also / his Beloved wife, ELIZABETH, Daughter of WILIAM WRIGHT Esqr, late / One of the COMMISSIONERS of His MAJESTY'S NAVY, she Dyed/the 22d of September, 1733 Aged 48 YEARS'.
Details
Description: Bust on a black sarcophagus bearing the inscription and flanked by trophies, a grey pyramid behind. Below, a relief of a first or second rate warship, with a relief panel depicting navigational instruments on each side.
Type: Monument
Position: Bell tower
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: ca.1740
Artists: Peter Scheemakers
Type: Monument
Position: Bell tower
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: ca.1740
Artists: Peter Scheemakers
People
Morrice, Salmon
Age: 68
Date of Death: 27/3/1741
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the White
Organisation: Royal Navy
Age: 68
Date of Death: 27/3/1741
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the White
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER Ship first or second rate. Design in pen, ink and wash, signed 'P. Scheemakers' in V & A 18946A. Photos in National Buildings Record, portrait bust not shown. Monument moved in 1859. 'The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy' gives his date of death as 27 March 1741.
Bibliography: John Newman 'Buildings of England: North East and East Kent' (Harmondsworth, 1983) p. 140; John Charnock 'Biographia Navalis' vol. iii, p.169; Ingrid Roscoe 'Peter Scheemakers', 'The Sixty-first volume of the Walpole Society' p. 205 (1999).
Bibliography: John Newman 'Buildings of England: North East and East Kent' (Harmondsworth, 1983) p. 140; John Charnock 'Biographia Navalis' vol. iii, p.169; Ingrid Roscoe 'Peter Scheemakers', 'The Sixty-first volume of the Walpole Society' p. 205 (1999).