Memorial: M3025

Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk commemorating Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, d. 1807 and Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, d. 1854

Location

Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / ADMIRAL SIR HYDE PARKER. / SECOND SON OF / VICE ADMIRAL SIR HYDE PARKER. BART. / DIED 16TH MARCH 1807. AGED 67. / AND OF HIS THREE SONS BY HIS FIRST WIFE / ANNE, DAUGHTER OF JOHN PALMER BOTELER ESQ. / 1 VICE ADMIRAL HYDE PARKER. C.B. / WHO DIED WHILE SENIOR NAVAL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY / 26TH MAY 1854. / 2 MAJOR GENERAL JOHN BOTTLER PARKER. C.B. / OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY / WHO LOST HIS LEFT LEG AT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. / AND DIED LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR / OF THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, WOOLWICH, / 25TH MARCH 1851. / 3 LIEUTENANT HARRY PARKER / COLDSTREAM GUARDS. / KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF TALAVERA, / 27TH JULY 1809. / ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS SECOND WIFE FRANCES, / DAUGHTER OF / ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD ONSLOW, BART. G.C.B. / LIEUTENANT GENERAL OF MARINES, / BY WHOM HE LEFT ISSUE. / ADMIRAL SIR HYDE PARKER COMMANDED A SQUADRON OF FRIGATES IN THE FIRST AMERICAN WAR, AND FOR HIS / SERVICES AT THAT PERIOD. RECEIVED THE HONOR OF / KNIGHTHOOD. HE WAS AFTERWARDS COMMANDER IN CHIEF / OF THE FLEET IN THE WEST INDIES, AND OF THE BALTIC / FLEET AT THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN, FOR WHICH / ACTION HE WAS VOTED THE THANKS OF PARLIAMENT.'

Details

Description: Inscription within a gothic arch. Two small heraldic crests in the arch.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Sanctuary
Materials: Sandstone

Event

Battle of Copenhagen 1801

People

Parker, Hyde
Age: 67
Date of Death: 16/3/1807
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy
Parker, Hyde
Age: c. 69
Date of Death: 26/5/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969
Photographer: P. Lacey

JSON

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  "transcript": "'IN MEMORY OF / ADMIRAL SIR HYDE PARKER. / SECOND SON OF / VICE ADMIRAL SIR HYDE PARKER. BART. / DIED 16TH MARCH 1807. AGED 67. / AND OF HIS THREE SONS BY HIS FIRST WIFE / ANNE, DAUGHTER OF JOHN PALMER BOTELER ESQ. / 1 VICE ADMIRAL HYDE PARKER. C.B. / WHO DIED WHILE SENIOR NAVAL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY / 26TH MAY 1854. / 2 MAJOR GENERAL JOHN BOTTLER PARKER. C.B. / OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY / WHO LOST HIS LEFT LEG AT THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. / AND DIED LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR / OF THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, WOOLWICH, / 25TH MARCH 1851. / 3 LIEUTENANT HARRY PARKER / COLDSTREAM GUARDS. / KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF TALAVERA, / 27TH JULY 1809. / ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS SECOND WIFE FRANCES, / DAUGHTER OF / ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD ONSLOW, BART. G.C.B. / LIEUTENANT GENERAL OF MARINES, / BY WHOM HE LEFT ISSUE. / ADMIRAL SIR HYDE PARKER COMMANDED A SQUADRON OF FRIGATES IN THE FIRST AMERICAN WAR, AND FOR HIS / SERVICES AT THAT PERIOD. RECEIVED THE HONOR OF / KNIGHTHOOD. HE WAS AFTERWARDS COMMANDER IN CHIEF / OF THE FLEET IN THE WEST INDIES, AND OF THE BALTIC / FLEET AT THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN, FOR WHICH / ACTION HE WAS VOTED THE THANKS OF PARLIAMENT.'",
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters