Memorial: M4899

Gravestone of Robert Whitehead d. 1905 in Worth, Sussex.

Location

St Nicholas's Church, Worth, Sussex, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ROBERT WHITEHEAD / OF FIUME, HUNGARY / AND FORMERLY OF PADDOCKHURST IN THIS PARISH / BORN AT BOLTON LE MOORS JAN 3 1823 / DIED AT BECKETT, SHRIVENHAM NOV 14 1905 / "HIS FAME WAS IN ALL NATIONS ROUND ABOUT"'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard

People

Whitehead, Robert
Age:
Date of Death: 14/11/1905
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Robert Whitehead is credited as the inventor of the modern torpedo.
Bibliography: 'The English in the Atlantic Islands', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 72, p. 318, (Greenwich, 1986).

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