Captain Humphrey le Fleming Senhouse

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Reference WMO/170096

Address:

St Mary's Church

Wasdale Road

Gosforth

CA20 1AZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • China (19C and 20C)
About the memorial: White Marble Tablet on Grey Marble Backboard on the wall at the west end of the north aisle. Captain Senhouse ‘liberated’ a bell from Annanghoy Fort on the Pearl River on 26 February 1841 during this Naval Expedition. After his death it was returned to his widow as spoils of war/a keepsake. In 1896 it was fitted with a clapper, hung in the Church Tower and rung when the new north aisle of the church was dedicated. Unfortunately it cracked badly as Chinese bells are made to be struck, not rung. It remains in the Church on the windowsill adjacent to his memorial. Either side of it are cannonballs from Gallipoli, in the Crimean conflict, similarly ‘spoils of war’. These are probably connected to Charles Allan Parker – Crimean War (see WMO/170090). It is above WMO/170094 with WMO/170092 below that
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IN MEMORY OF/SIR HUMPHREY LE FLEMING SENHOUSE/OF SEASCALE, KT, C.B., K.C.H./AND A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY/WHO HAVING FAITHFULLY SERVED HIS COUNTRY FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS/LOST HIS LIFE IN CONSEQUENCE OF GREAT MENTAL AND BODILY EXERTIONS,/AFTER THE TAKING OF THE HEIGHTS OF CANTON, WHERE HE WAS/SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER IN COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY’S SQUADRON./HE DIED ON BOARD H.M.S. BLENHEIM/JUNE 13TH 1841;IN HIS 60TH YEAR./IN GOODNESS, UPRIGHTNESS, AND INTEGRITY OF HEART, NONE SURPASSED HIM/HIS SORROWING WIDOW AND CHILDREN MOST DEEPLY DEPLORE THEIR IRREPARABLE LOSS;/HEREAFTER THEY HUMBLY HOPE TO BE UNITED TO HIS SPIRIT/IN THE BOSOM OF THEIR REDEEMING GOD/HIS MORTAL REMAINS WERE BURIED AT MACAO/WHERE A MONUMENT HAS BEEN ERECTED BY OFFICERS OF THE/ARMY AND NAVY, BELONGING TO THE CHINESE EXPEDITION/TO MARK THEIR GREAT ESTEEM AND RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER.

SIR HUMPHREY LE FLEMING SENHOUSE

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