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Location: St Peter’s Church, Cosgrove, Northants

Type: Memorial plaque

Material: Stone

Date of death: 14 April 1835
Place of death: Cosgrove Priory, Northants

Description: Memorial plaque on the north wall of the chancel, consisting of a plain stone tablet mounted on a black background slab, and surmounted by a semicircle containing a weeping tree bending over. Adjoining is another stone commemorating Eleanor, his wife. Their actual graves rest under the left centre of the chancel floor, under the altar table, and these are marked by two brass plates inset into a York stone slab.

Dimensions: Memorial plaque: approx 40 cm × 35 cm
Brass plate: 15 cm × 11 cm.

Sculptor: M W Johnson, New Road, London.

Transcription

Memorial plaque:

to the memory of

SIR ROBERT MOORSOM K.C.B.

admiral of the blue squadron

of the fleet;

who died 14th april 1835,

in his 75th year.


Brass plaque:

r.m.

obt. ap.14.1835

aet. 75.

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