- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 97875
- Description
- An elaborate alabaster tablet engraved with a ship's mast and sail and other nautical accoutrements. A long commemoration, the length of the sail adornment, by the subjects parent remembering him.
- Inscription
- SACRED TO THE MEMORY/ OF/ LIEUTENANT JAMES GASTRELL HARRINGTON/ THE ROYAL NAVY/ THIS CENTOTAPH HAS BEEN ERECTED BY HIS/ AFFLICTED PARENTS/ JAMES HARRINGTON ESQR. OF THE PARISH SURGEON/ AND HARRIET, HIS WIFE./ TO THE SCIENCE OF THE OFFICER/ HE UNITED/ THE SKILL OF THE SEAMAN./ WITH AN EFFECT WHICH IN THE DISCHARGE OF DUTY/ SECURED THE APPROBATION OF HIS COMMANDER/ AND WON THE AFFECTION OF HIS CREW./ HE NEVER OMITTED ZEALOUSLY TO SOLICIT SERVICE/ IN THE HOUR OF DANGER/ AND ALWAYS JUSTIFIED THE CONFIDENCE REPOSED IN HIM BY THE DISPLAY OF ENERGY AND COURAGE/ HE WAS IN THE PRIME OF MANHOOD AND HAD MADE/ A STEADY PROGRESS IN THE PATH/ WHICH WAS CONDUCTING HIM TO FURTHER EMINENCE/ WHEN A FEVER FRUSTRATED THE ARDENT EXPECTATIONS/ OF HIS FRIENDS WHO LOVED HIM./ THEY DEEPLY DEPLORE HIS LOSS BUT ARE CONSOLED/ BY INDULGING THE CHRISTIAN HOPE/ THAT WHILE HIS MORTAL REMAINS REST ENTOMBED/ IN A DISTANT LAND,/ HIS SPIRIT IS RETURNED TO GOD/ WHO GAVE IT/ J.G.H. WAS BORN NOVR.2D. 1787: DIED MAY 10TH.1812, AND WAS BURIED ON THE FOLLOWING DAY/ WITH MILITARY HONORS, NEAR MAHON, IN MINORCA./ THE GRAVE IS COVERED WITH A PLATFORM OF STONE, ON WHICH A MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED/ BY HIS UNCLE, ROBERT PLAMPIN ESQR. CAPTAIN OF THE H.M.S. OCEAN.