- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 117115
- Description
- Wall mounted, portrait orientated, nowy headed, grey marble backboard on which is a white marble column in relief with an urn on top and a wreath on the front. The prow of a ship is shown to the left. The column rests on a rock on which are sea shells and a sword wrapped in its belt. The whole sculpture sits on a large marble shelf supported by two corbels, the dedication on this shelf is incised and picked out in black
- Inscription
- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ COMMANDER CHARLES COTTON R.N./ WHO DIED ON BOARD H.M.S. ZEBRA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ON THE ELEVENTH OF FEBRUARY 1828,/ IN THE 25TH YEAR OF HS AGE,/ AND WAS INTERRED NEAR THE PRATIQUE CHURCH AT MALTA, WHERE A MONUMENT ERECTED BY/ HIS OFFICERS AND MEN ATTESTS, WITH THEIR OWN GRIEF THEIR DEEP SENSE OF HIS LOSS TO THE SERVICE./ HE WAS THE YOUNGEST SON OF ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES COTTON BART/ AND HAVING EMBRACED HIS FATHERS PROFFESION HE DISPLAYED THAT ZEAL AND TALENT/ WHICH SECURED TO HIM THE HIGH APPROBATION OF HIS CAOMMANDER IN CHIEF AND/ THE CONFIDENCE OF THOSE WHO SERVED WITH HIM./ HIS DEATH WAS OCCASIONED BY A FEVER RESULTING FROM THE FATIGUES OF AN ARDUOUS SERVICE/ IN THE COURSE OF WHICH HE WAS EMINENTLY CONSPICUOUS IN RESCUING THE CREW OF H.M.S. CAMBRIAN/ OFF CARABUSA IN THE ISLAND OF CANDIA./ TO HIS AMIABLE QUALITIES IN PRIVATE LIFE, TO THE GENUINE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART, AND THE/ FRANKNESS OF HIS DISPOSITION, THE AFFECTIONATE REGRET OF MANY FRIENDS, AND THE DEEP AND LASTING/ SORROW OF HIS HEARER CONNECTIONS, BEAR AMPLE TESTIMONY; NOR DOES RELIGION CONDEMN THEIR GRIEF,/ WHILE SHE TEACHES THEM NOT TO “SORROW AS MEN WITHOUT HOPE,” AND POINTS TO A REUNION/ IN A WORLD WHERE DEATH AND TEARS AND SEPERATION SHALL BE NO MORE./ THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HIS AFFLICTED MOTHER.