Memorial

Vice Admiral Salmon Morrice

Admiral Salmon Morrice

Source: Copyright Marc Horton

1/1

Current Location

St Mary the Virgin Church, Betteshanger, Dover, Kent, CT14 0NN , England

TR 31258 52510

Church of England

Send us details and photographs of your local war memorials, to help enhance the information about the people, places and events they commemorate.

This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.

To share information or photographs, contact us.

Type of Memorial: Other memorial
WMR Reference Number: 58129
Description: Bust on a black sarcophagus, silhouetted against grey obelisk, flanked by trophies. Below is a relief of a first or second rate warship in full sail, with a relief panel depicting navigational instruments on each side.
Inscription: NEAR to this Place is Interr'd SALMON MORRICE Esq VICE ADMIRAL of His/ MAJESTY'S WHITE SQUADRON, who Dyed the 25th March 1740. Aged 68 Years. Also/ his Beloved wife, ELIZABETH, Daughter of WILLIAM WRIGHT Esqr, late/ One of the COMMISSIONERS of His MAJESTY'S NAVY, she Dyed/ the 22d of September, 1733 Aged 48 YEARS'

War: Military Service
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: surname,rank,year died,forename,age of death,relationships,additional

Unveiled

C 1740

UNKNOWN

Memorial

Made from: Marble - Black

Condition: Good

Newman, J: North East and East Kent, 2nd edition 1976, p140
Mee, Arthur: Kent, London 1936, p 38-39
See "Kent Archaeology" site, paragraph 28: https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/records/monumental-inscriptions/betteshanger [accessed 26/08/2026]