Memorial: M5816

Wall memorial in St Martin’s Church, Bowness-on-Windermere dedicated to Henry Thompson d.1832

Location

St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, England

Transcript

'THE LORD GAVE, AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY, / BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD / ON THE SEVENTH OF JUNE 1832 WAS LOST, WITH ALL THE CREW OF HIS MAJESTY`S BRIG RECRUIT, / IN A SEVERE GALE OF WIND, / ON THE PASSAGE FROM HALIFAX TO BERMUDA / HENRY G. POULET THOMSON / AGED FOURTEEN YEARS, / YOUNGEST SON OF / ANDREW HENRY POULETT THOMSON ESQUIRE, / LATE OF BELFIELD. / DIED ON THE SEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER 1834 / DIED AT BELFIELD AGED FORTY ONE YEARS / SOPHIA POULET THOMSON, / WIFE AND MOTHER OF THE ABOVE. / ON THE SECOND OF JUNE 1836 / DIED AT GREENWICH, AGED TWENTY YEARS, / ANDREW JOHN POULETT THOMSON, / ELDEST AND ONLY SURVIVING SON OF THE ABOVE. / ON THE TWENTY EIGHTH OF APRIL 1839 WAS DROWNED / IN THE RIVER THAMES, BY THE UPSETTING OF A BOAT, / AT A SHORT DISTANCE FROM HIS HOUSE AT MARLOW, / ANDREW HENRY POULETT THOMSON ESQRE / LATE OF BELFIELD IN THIS COUNTY, / AND OF AUSTIN FRIARS LONDON, AGED FIFTY TWO YEARS. / ON THE FIFTH OF SEPTEMBER 1840 DIED AT MORTLAKE / IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, AGED TWENTY SIX YEARS, / CHARLOTTE WEGUELIN, / ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE, AND WIFE OF / THOMAS MATTHIAS WEGUELIN ESQRE, OF MORTLAKE AND SUBLIME'

Details

Description: Urn and anchor carved above the inscription.

Type: Wall memorial
Position: Interior
Materials: Marble
Vessel: Recruit

People

Thompson, Andrew Henry Poulett
Age: 52
Date of Death: 28/4/1839
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:
Thomson, Henry G. Poulet
Age: 14
Date of Death: 7/9/1832
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Date of loss given in Colledge as 1832.
Photographer: B. Tomlinson 2019

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters