Memorial at All Saints Church, Chelsea commemorating Peregrine Clifford Chamberlayne d. 1691
Location
All Saints Church, Chelsea, London, England
Transcript
'POSTERITATI SACRUM / HIC JUXTA SITUS EST PERIGRINUS CLIFFORD / CHAMBERLAYNE DUX MARINUS FILIUS NATU / MAXIMUS EDVARDI CHAMBERLAYNE / LEGUM DOCTORIS / NATUS FUIT HAGAE COMITIS 22 JAN 1660 / QUI TUM LINGUIS SCIETIIS LIBERALIBUS / STUDIO LEGUM MUNICIPALIUM ARTIBUS / PINGENDI, PSALLENDI, DIGLIADIENDI / MODULANDI / TERRAS ET REGIONIES DIMITIENDI / SED PRAE OMNIBUS OPERAM NAVIGANDI DEDISSET / QUATUOR MUDI PLAGAS LUTRASSET REGI / PATRAE FIDELITER AC STRENUE CONTRA GALLOS / ET INDOS MERUISSET, HEU PRAEMATURE IN / TERRAS OBLIVIONIS SEMIGAVIT / 6 NOVEM 1691 / HOC MONUMENTUS NON IMPUNE TEMERANDUM / PONI CURAVIT MOERENS PATER' [ Sacred to posterity, near this place lies interred Peregrine Clifford Chamberlayne, a naval officer, eldest son of Edward Chamberlayne, Doctor of Law, born in the Hague, Jan 22 1660, who was well skilled in the learned languages and liberal sciences; also in municipal law; but especially in navigation. He visited the four parts of the world; and after having deserved well both of his king and country, by fighting valiantly against the French and the Indians, he died the sixth of November 1691. This monument, not to be violated with impunity, his sorrowful father caused to be erected]
Details
Position: Churchyard
People
Age: 31
Date of Death: 6/11/1691
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Naval Officer
Organisation: Royal Navy