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Memorial: M3064

Wall memorial in the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington, Hampshire commemorating Captain Josias Rogers RN d. 1795

Location

Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington, Hampshire, England

Transcript

'AS / A Tribute of / Grateful Affection, / This Monument / is sacred / To the Memory of / CAPTAIN / JOSIAS ROGERS, / Of His MAJESTY's Ship / QUEBEC.', 'Who, during the American War, braved every Danger, / And suffered all the Severities of Wounds and Imprisonment. / In the Campaign of 1794, he commanded the Naval Battalions / At the Reduction of the French Islands in the West Indies: / Where his Services were great to his Country, and honourable to his own Character. / In his Excursions to save Grenada, he died of the Yellow Fever, on the 24th of April, 1795, aged 40. / The COUNCIL of Grenada decreed a Monument in Honour of his PUBLIC SERVICES: / And in Remembrance of his PRIVATE VIRTUES, his Widow / soothed her Sorrows, / By inscribing this Tablet to his Memory. / By the same dreadful Disorder, on the 13th May, 1794, (after having distinguish'd himself / in the Dangers and Fatigues of the Campaign) fell at Guadeloupe in his 26th Year, / JAMES ROGERS, his Brother, and First LIEUTENANT of the same ship: / Whose generous and manly Principles were admired / by All who knew him. / On the 9th of the same Month, at the Age of 19: the Promise of Virtue and Talents, in JOSIAS ROGERS, his Nephew / and also LIEUT. of the QUEBEC, / died at Martinique, by the same Fatality'

Details

Description: White marble stele resting on a narrow moulded shelf supported on pilasters with an eliptical apron below bearing the inscription. The whole set on a slate mount. The stele is carved in relief with an urn on a pillar. A draped female figure garlands the monument with flowers and points heavenwards, the fluke of an anchor seen behind her feet. The stern of a warship is shown on the other side of the urn, inscribed 'QUEBEC'.
Type: Wall memorial
Position: Sanctuary south wall
Materials: Marble, slate
Date Erected: 1797
Artists: John Bacon, the elder
Vessel: HMS Quebec

People

Rodgers, Josias
Age: 40
Date of Death: 24/4/1795
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Rogers, Josias
Age: 40
Date of Death: 24/4/1795
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Rogers, James
Age: 26
Date of Death: 13/5/1794
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Rogers, Josias
Age: 19
Date of Death: 9/5/1794
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Design in V&A showing Hope on the other side of the urn.
Bibliography: P. Clissold 'Ships and Monuments in the Solent Area', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 58, p. 214 (Greenwich, 1972); 'Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964); John Physick 'Designs for English Scupture 1680-1860' (London, 1969) pp.156-7.
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Photographer: B. Tomlinson 2019
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