Location: St Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, London

Type: Grave

Date of death: 28 April 1851
Place of death: Eaton Square, London.

Note: Buried in the crypt of St Peter’s Church. At the end of 1952 or early 1953 the church needed to clear the crypt for use as a parish hall. Part of it had been bricked up, and Sir Edward’s coffin was found among four hundred coffins there. All the remains were removed to Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, by night. According to one unconfirmed report, they were re-interred in Plot 70 at Brookwood, but a ground search shows nothing visible there. There was a memorial tablet in St Peter’s Church until it was destroyed in a disastrous fire in 1987. According to the Church History, this tablet recorded that Sir Edward ‘captained the Orion at Trafalgar and commanded the combined British, French and Russian fleet at Navarino in 1827. His family long took a leading part in the affairs of St Peter’s . . . his great-grandson Colonel Sir Geoffrey Codrington (1888–1973) caused the inscription about his great-grandfather’s coffin to be cut.’ Unfortunately the church no longer has a transcript of this inscription.