Wall tablet in Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey commemorating Captain Frederick Le Mesurier HEIC d. 1783
Location
Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'To the memory of Frederick Le Mesurier / late Commander / of the Ponsborne East India ship / second son of John Le Mesurier Esq / Governor of the Island of Alderney who died at Brentford / on the third of May 1783 / in the thirty first year of his age. / In professional knowledge he had few equals / for the want of Longer Experience / was in him amply supplied / by Attention and Activity / His understanding was sound / His manner most Amiable / Simple and Modest, / he seldom offered himself to the world / but when impelled by the necessities of others / or his own Duty / his courage was unaffected, steady, / temperate and inflexible. / For it was founded in Religion and Justice: / It bore him through many dangers, / It supported him in his last moments. / Patient and Resigned / through the course of a painful Illness / he seemed only to feel / for his Friends who wept over him. / His Brothers and Sisters / have erected this monument / in remembrance of those virtues / which assure them of his Happiness in a Better State'
Details
Position: Obscured by the organ
Vessel: HEIC Ponsborne
People
Age: 30
Date of Death: 3/5/1783
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Extra
Recorder: J. Le Pelley 1981