Memorial: M2379

Memorial at Greenwich to Vice-Admiral Thomas Boulden Thompson d. 1828

Location

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / SIR THOMAS BOULDEN THOMPSON, BART. / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS / OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH / WHO OBTAINED THE DISTINGUISHED FAVOUR / OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN / WHILE SERVING UNDER THE FLAG OF / THE ILLUSTRIOUS NELSON / BY HIS GALLANT CONDUCT IN COMMAND OF / HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP LEANDER / AT THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, IST AUGUST 1798, / AND AGAIN IN H.M. SHIP BELLONA / OFF COPENHAGEN 2ND APRIL 1801 / WHEN HE LOST HIS LEG BY A CANNON SHOT / HE SUBSEQUENTLY FILLED THE STATION OF / COMPTROLLER OF THE NAVY / AND REPRESENTED THE CITY OF ROCHESTER / IN PARLIAMENT FROM 1806 TO 1816, / WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED / TREASURER OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL / AND HELD THAT OFFICE TILL HIS DECEASE / ON 3RD MARCH 1828, AGED 62 / READER / WHILE YOU ADMIRE AND PERHAPS COVET / THESE PATRIOT HONOURS / WHICH EXCITED NO VAIN GLORY / IN THE BOSOM OF THIS BRAVE OFFICER / REMEMBER THE FAR NOBLER REWARD / OF EVERY FAITHFUL SOLDIER OF CHRIST / FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH / AND LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE'

Details

Description: A column inscribed 'Leander' and 'Bellona' with a flag at half mast on the top.
Type: Free standing monument
Materials: Portland stone, bronze

People

Thompson, Thomas Boulden
Age: 62
Date of Death: 3/3/1828
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Formerly with a bronze flag staff now detached.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1981
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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