Memorial: M1998

Memorial at St George’s Church, Deal, Kent commemorating Captain Edward Thornborough Parker RN d. 1801

Location

St George's Church, Deal, Kent, England

Transcript

[Top] 'Captain Edward Thornborough Parker /died on 27 September 1801' [East side] 'The remains of Capt. E.T. Parker RN / Are here interr'd / Wounded 15 August 1801 off Boulogne / And on 27th September following / Terminated his career of glory / In the 23rd year of his age.' [North side] ' This stone records the gallant hero's name / whose youthful bosom glow'd with virtue's flame / A nation heard with tears his mournful doom / the flower of Valour wither'd in its bloom.'

Details

Type: Tomb
Position: South west corner of churchyard
Materials: Limestone

Event

Attack on Boulogne

Event Date

1801

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Parker, Edward Thornborough
Age: 23
Date of Death: 27/9/1801
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Inscription now illegible, but an additional bronze plaque transcribing it was been added by The 1805 Club and The Deal Society in September 1999. His funeral was attended by Admiral Lord Nelson, who was a close friend.
Bibliography: Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) pp. 112-3.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson, sighted 2014.
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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