Memorial: M2974

Tablet dedicated to Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Charles Edmund Nugent RN, d. 1844, in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Location

Church of St John the Baptist, Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / SIR CHARLES EDMUND NUGENT G.C.H. / AND ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET. / WHO DIED ON THE 7TH JANUARY 1844 IN THE 86TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. / HE ENTERED THE SERVICE VERY EARLY IN LIFE / AND SERVED IN EUROPE AND AMERICA ABOVE SEVENTY YEARS. / MOST HONORABLY AND WITH GREAT CREDIT. / HAVING DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF, / BOTH AT SEA AND ON LAND ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS / UNTIL HE ATTAINED A HIGH RANK IN HIS PROFESSION. / HE WAS BURIED AT STUDLAND, NEAR SWANAGE, IN DORSETSHIRE. / ON THE 13TH OF JANUARY 1844. / MAY GOD ALMIGHTY BE GRACIOUSLY PLEASED TO HAVE MERCY / UPON HIS SOUL. AND MAY THE RECORDING ANGEL DROP A TEAR / UPON HIS TRANSGRESSIONS. AND BLOT THEM OUT FOR EVER. Sterne. / THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER / GENERAL SIR GEORGE NUGENT G.C.B. / AS A MEMORIAL OF HIS GREAT LOVE FOR HIM / AND OF THEIR MUTUAL REGARD'

Details

Vessel: HMS Caesar

Event

Seizure of Omoa

Event Date

20/10/1779

Event Category

1793 - 1802 French Revolutionary War

People

Nugent, Charles Edmund
Age: 85
Date of Death: 7/1/1844
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: J. K. Laughton, ‘Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund (bap. 1759, d. 1844)’, rev. Michael Partridge, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20386, accessed 31 May 2017]
Recorder: Colin Harris 1993

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