Captain Sir John Franklin

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Reference WMO/294193

Address:

St James' Church

Church Street

Spilsby

PE23 5DU

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:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Marble
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Other
About the memorial: A wall mounted tablet and a landscape mounted brass plaque. The tablet has a cornice and ihs in relief at top centre, below is a side portrait in relief of Sir John Franklin which is above the incised inscription picked out in black. The whole sits on a black backboard. The plaque is landscape mounted on a dark wood backboard and sits directly below the tablet, incised writing in black with name capitalisation in red. The shields of the Franklin and Porden family are either side at the bottom. It is on the north wall at the west end of the south aisle. (See comment about validity)
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Tablet: IN MEMORY/ OF/ CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, R.N.,/ K.C.H._K.R._D.C.L.,/ THE ARCTIC NAVIGATOR AND EXPLORER./ BORN AT SPILSBY, APRIL 16TH 1786,/ DIED IN THE ARCTIC SEAS, JUNE 11TH 1847,/ WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE EXPEDITION/ WHICH FIRST DISCOVERED/ THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE./ "THEY FORGE THE LAST LINK WITH THEIR LIVES"./ ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW. Plaque: TO THE MEMORY OF/ ELEANOR ANNE PORDEN FIRST WIFE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN/ A POETESS ENDEARED TO MANY BY HER GENTLE VIRTUES, AND FOR/ HER GIFTS OF INTELLECT ENROLLED A MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE;/ WHO SMITTEN BY MORTAL ILLNESS YET SPEEDED HER HUSBAND ON HIS/ SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION AND SURVIVING HIS DEPARTURE ONLY SIX DAYS/ DIED 1825 AGED 29 AND WAS BURIED AT ST. JOHN'S WOOD:/ AND OF THEIR ONLY CHILD ELEANOR ISABELLA, WIFE OF JOHN PHILIP GELL/ OF THE COUNTY OF DERBY {SOMETIME WARDEN OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE TASMANIA,/ VICAR OF NOTTING HILL, AND RECTOR OF BUXTED}, WHO DIED 1860 AGED 36/ AND WAS BURIED AT TREDUNNOC MONMOUTHSHIRE LEAVING SEVEN CHILDREN:/ AND OF JOHN FRANKLIN GELL M.A. ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE/ WHO DIED AT MADRAS 1884 AGED 33:/ THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED IN COMMEMORATION/ OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S DEATH/ IN THE ARCTIC SEA BY HIS SURVIVING GRANDSONS

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