Memorial: M5598

Wall tablet at Butleigh, Somerset, commemorating Lieutenant Arthur Hood RN d. 1775, Captain Alexander Hood RN d. 1798 and Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood d. 1814

Location

St Leonard's Church, Butleigh, Somerset, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ARTHUR HOOD ESQR. LIEUTENANT LOST AT SEA 1795 [1775?] / ALEXANDER HOOD ESQR. CAPTAIN KILLED IN ACTION 1798 / OF THE ROYAL NAV. / AND SIR SAMUEL HOOD BARONET NOMINATED / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE BATH / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER OF THE SWORD, / KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF SNT. FERDINAND AND MERIT / VICE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, COLONEL OF MARINES / AND LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET / IN THE EAST INDIES. DIED AT MADRAS 1814 AND WAS BURIED THERE / WITH PUBLIC HONORS / DIVIDED FAR BY DEATH WERE THEY WHOSE NAMES / IN HONOUR HERE UNITED AS IN BIRTH / THIS MONUMENTAL VERSE RECORDS. THEY DREW / AMONG THE WESTERN HILLS THEIR NATAL BREATH. / AND FROM THOSE SHORES BEHELD THE OCEAN FIRST / WHEREON IN EARLY YOUTH WITH ONE ACCORD / THEY CHOSE THEIR WAY OF FORTUNE; TO THAT COURSE / BY HOOD AND BRIDPORT'S BRIGHT EXAMPLE DRAWN, / THEIR KINSMEN, CHILDREN OF THIS PLACE, AND SONS / OF ONE WHO IN HIS FAITHFUL MINISTRY / INCULCATED WITHIN THESE HALLOWED WALLS / THE TRUTHS IN MERCY TO MANKIND REVEAL'D. / WORTHY WERE THESE THREE BRETHREN EACH TO ADD / NEW HONOUR TO THE ALREADY HONOURED NAME. / BUT ARTHUR IN THE MORNING OF HIS DAY / PERISHED AMID THE CARRIBBEAN [sic] SEA / WHEN THE POMONA BY A HURRICANE / WHIRL'D, RIVEN, AND OVERWHELM'D WITH ALL HER CREW / INTO THE DEEP WENT DOWN, A LONGER DATE / TO ALEXANDER WAS ASSIGN'D FOR HOPE, / FOR FAIR AMBITION, AND FOR FOND REGRET. / ALAS HOW SHORT FOR DUTY, FOR DESSERT / SUFFICING; AND WHILE TIME PRESERVES THE ROLL / OF BRITAIN'S NAVAL FEATS, FOR GOOD REPORT. / A BOY WITH COOK HE ROUNDED THE GREAT GLOBE. / A YOUTH IN MANY A CELEBRATED FIGHT / WITH RODNEY HAD HIS PART; AND HAVING REACH'D / LIFE'S MIDDLE STAGE, ENGAGING SHIP TO SHIP, / WHEN THE FRENCH HERCULES, A GALLANT FOE, / STRUCK TO THE BRITISH MARS HIS THREE STRIPED FLAG, / HE FELL IN THE MOMENT OF HIS VICTORY. / HERE HIS REMAINS IN SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE / ARE LAID UNTIL THE HOUR WHEN EARTH AND SEA / SHALL RENDER UP THEIR DEAD. ONE BROTHER YET / SURVIVED, WITH KEPPEL AND WITH RODNEY TRAIN'D / IN BATTLES WITH THE LORD OF NILE APPROVED, / 'ERE IN COMMAND HE WORTHILY UPHELD / OLD ENGLAND'S HIGH PREROGATIVE IN THE EAST, / THE WEST, THE BALTIC AND THE MIDLAND SEAS / YEA WHERESOEVER HOSTILE FLEETS HAVE PLOUGH'D / THE ENSANGUIN'D DEEP HIS THUNDERS HAVE BEEN HEARD, / HIS FLAG IN BRAVE DEFIANCE HATH BEEN SEEN / AND BRAVEST ENEMIES AT SIR SAMUEL'S NAME / FELT FATAL PRESAGE IN THEIR INMOST HEART / OF UNAVERTABLE DEFEAT FORDOOM'ED / THUS IN THE PATHS OF GLORY HE RODE ON / VICTORIOUS, ALWAY ADDING PRAISE TO PRAISE, / TILL FULL OF HONOURS, NOT OF YEARS, BENEATH / THE VENOM OF THE INFECTED CLIME HE SUNK / ON COROMANDEL'S COAST, COMPLETING THERE / HIS SERVICE ONLY WHEN HIS LIFE WAS SPENT. / OF THE THREE BRETHEREN ALEXANDER'S SON / (SOLE SCION HE IN WHOM THEIR LINE SURVIVED) / WITH ENGLISH FEELING AND THE DEEPER SENSE / OF FILIAL DUTY CONSECRATES THIS TOMB'

Details

Description: Inscription surrounded by gothic tracery, the Hood arms and supporters in high relief above. A relief at the base of the memorial shows Samuel Hood as Captain of the Frigate 'Juno' rescuing three sailors from a wreck in St Anne's harbour, Jamaica on 3 February 1791.

Type: Wall tablet
Position: South Transept
Artists: Lucius Gahagan
Vessel: Pomona, Hercules; Mars

People

Hood, Arthur
Age:
Date of Death: 1775
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hood, Alexander
Age: 40
Date of Death: 21/4/1798
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hood, Samuel
Age: 52
Date of Death: 24/12/1814
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the White
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Inscription by Robert Southey.

Bibliography: Hore, Peter 'Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials' (Barnsley, 2015) p. 25.
Photographer: Anne Michell

JSON

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