Memorial in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London commemorating Vice-Admiral Temple West RN d. 1757

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Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England

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'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF TEMPLE WEST ESQ / Who dedicating himself from his earliest Youth / To the Naval Service of his Country / Rose with merit and reputation to the rank of / Vice Admiral of the White / Sagaceous, Active, Industrious / He was a skilful seaman / Cool, Intrepid and Resolute / He approved himself a gallant Officer / In the signal Victory / Obtained over the French May 3 1747 / He was Captain of the ship which carried Sir Peter Warren / And acquired peculiar Honour / even in that day of general Glory / In the less successful engagement near Minorca May 20 1756 / when as Rear Admiral he commanded the second division / His distinguished courage and animating example / Were admired by the whole British squadron / Confessed by that of France / And amid the national Discontent which followed / Rewarded as they deserved by the warmest Applause / of his Country and the just Approbation of his Sovereign / On the 17th of November following / He was appointed / One of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty / He adorned this Station / By a Modesty which concealed from him his own Merits / By a candour which disposed him to reward that of others / With these public Talents / He possessed the milder graces of a domestic Life / To the frank and generous Spirit of an Officer / He added the ease and Politeness of a Gentleman / And with the moral and social Virtues of a good Man / He exercised the Duties of a Christian / A life so honourable to himself / So dear to his friends so useful to his Country / Was ended at the age of 43 AD 1757 / To preserve to Posterity / His Fame and his Example / This Monument was erected / By the daughter of the brave, unfortunate Balchen / The Wife of Temple West A.D. 1761'

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