Captain Thomas Buckston

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Reference WMO/291212

Address:

All Saints Church

Mill Lane

Bradbourne

DE6 1PA

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
  • Stone Slate
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Jacobite Rebellions (1708-1746)
About the memorial: A white marble tablet on a slate backboard. The tablet has a plain bordered pediment and quadrants over a moulded cornice at the head, and a rebated base. The inscription is in upright Roman capital lettering coloured black. The painted slate backboard has a shallow triangular arch top and similar inverted lower edge, and bears a white marble coat of arms at the foot. It is on the west wall of the South aisle. This is a difficult case of whether to include or not. Clearly his death, at a great age, was due to natural causes. However the tablet is almost entirely about his military career, which includes the Jacobite uprisings. It is not about his personal life. On that basis, and that basis alone, it is included here.
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IN A VAULT IN THIS CHURCH YARD,/ ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF/ THOMAS BUCKSTON ESQR.,/ WHO DIED IN THE YEAR 1811, AGED 87./ MANY YEARS CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL MARINES:/ DURING WHICH PERIOD,/ HE SERVED IN MANY ENGAGEMENTS:/ LIVED TO BE ONE OF THE OLDEST OFFICERS/ IN HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE./ HE WAS FORMERLY A LIEUTENANT IN THE/ 30TH. REGIMENT OF FOOT./ AND WAS AT THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN IN 1745./ A MAN WARMLY ATTACHED TO HIS FAMILY/ AND FRIENDS./ CHARITABLE, AND RELIGIOUS IN HIS PRINCIPLES/ AND CONDUCT./ ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE, DIED AUGUST 27TH. 1810,/ AGED 75.

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