Memorial: M1791

Wall tablet commemorating Lieutenant Alexander Baker RN in Chatsworth, Derbyshire d. 1816

Location

Endsor, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF / ALEXANDER BARKER / ONLY SON OF GEORGE AND DEBORAH BARKER / LATE OF THIS VILLAGE; / WHO DIED AT TOTLEY VIII FEBRUARY MDCCCXXII / AGED LXXVII YEARS / AND OF / ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, / DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND DEBORAH BOSSLEY, / OF BAKEWELL; / WHO DIED XXVII MAY MDCCCXVI, AGED LXVI / ALSO OF / DEBORAH, ELIZABETH, / JAMES, AND / ELIZABETH THEIR CHILDREN; / WHO DIED OF TENDER AGE, / ALSO OF CALEB THEIR ELDEST SON, / WHO DIED XXIV JULY MDCCCXIV, AGED XLII / AND ALSO OF / GEORGE ALEXANDER THEIR THIRD SON, / A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY, / ON BOARD THE SWIFTSURE IN THE BATTLE OF / TRAFALGAR; / WHO DIED AT CHESTERFIELD VI DECEMBER / MDCCCXVI, AGED XXXI. / ALL WERE INTERRED IN THIS CHURCHYARD / EXCEPT ELIZABETH THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER / WHO DIED AND WAS BURIED AT CHESTERFIELD'

Details

Description: White marble wall tablet on black mount. A draped urn above the inscription tablet.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: West end of nave
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Swiftsure

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Barker, George Alexander
Age: 31
Date of Death: 6/12/1816
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: A Lieutenant in the Royal Navy aboard the Swiftsure at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805. Died in Chesterfield December 1816 aged 31.
Recorder: G.R. Simpson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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