Memorial: M2105

Wall tablet in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eastry, Kent commemorating Captain John Harvey RN, d. 1794

Location

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eastry, Kent, England

Transcript

'IN A VAULT / IN THE MIDDLE AISLE OF THIS CHURCH / ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS / OF / CAPTAIN JOHN HARVEY, / LATE COMMANDER / OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BRUNSWICK / WHO / AFTER GLORIOUSLY SUPPORTING THE HONOR / OF THE BRITISH NAVY, / ON THE MEMORABLE FIRST OF JUNE / MDCCXCIV / UNDER EARL HOWE / DIED AT PORTSMOUTH ON THE THIRTIETH OF THE SAME MONTH / IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE WOUNDS HE RECEIVED / IN THE ENGAGEMENT, AGED FIFTY THREE YEARS. / THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, / TO PERPETUATE HIS MOST GALLANT CONDUCT / ON THAT DAY OF VICTORY, / UNANIMOUSLY VOTED A MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY / IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY: / HIS UNTIMELY DEATH ONLY, / PREVENTED HIS BEING HONOURED IN THE FLAG PROMOTIONS / WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THAT OCCASION. / IN HIM HIS AFFLICTED FAMILY, AND NUMEROUS FRIENDS, / HAVE SUSTAINED AN IRREPARABLE LOSS, / HIS PUBLIC CHARACTER BEING ONLY EQUALLED / BY HIS PRIVATE VIRTUES'

Details

Description: Inscription on a black obelisk above a circular relief of a naval battle over which floats an angel holding scales and a victor's palm.

Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble
Artists: John Bacon, the younger
Vessel: HMS ‘Brunswick'

Event

Glorious First of June

Event Date

1794

Event Category

1793-1802 French Revolutionary War

People

Harvey, John
Age: 53
Date of Death: 30/6/1794
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER. MSS K.A .Esdaile unpublished dictionary of British sculptors: V & A MSL4462-1977. Model at the Bolton's studios SW10 1937. The relief originally part of a large free standing monument in Westminster Abbey.

HMS 'Brunswick' notably suffered the highest casualties of any British ship during the Battle of the First of June.

Bibliography: 'Memoir of the Late Captain John Harvey 'Naval Chronicle' vol.3, pp.241-259, (London, 1800); John Newman 'Buildings of England: North East and East Kent' (Harmondsworth, 1983); Rupert Gunnis 'History in Marble', 'Country Life' vol. cxviii, pp.396-398 (25 August 1955).
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters