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St. John the Baptist Church

Lord Somerset John Gough Calthorpe (Lieutenant General)

Title: Lord
Forenames: Somerset John Gough
Surnames: Calthorpe
Date of Birth: 23/01/1831
Date of Death: 16/11/1912
Age at Death Years: 81
Grave Type: Cremation
Military Rank: Lieutenant General
Map Reference Number: RSHG SJCLA
Plot Number: E6 & E8
Grave Description: Memorial plaque, chapel and memorial for ashes inside church
Other Information: Source: Church records

Inscription:

Memorial plaque
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
LIEUT: GENERAL
THE RIGHT HONORABLE SOMERSET JOHN
LORD CALTHORPE, K. C. B.
BORN 23RD JANUARY 1831
DIED 16TH NOVEMBER 1912

SERVED AS A. C. D. TO FIELD MARSHALL LORD RAGLAN
DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR, AND WAS PRESENT AT THE
BATTLES OF THE ALMA, BALACLAVA AND INKERMAN
AND DURING THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL

COMMANDED THE 5TH DRAGOON GUARDS FROM 1861 TO 1869

WAS CHAIRMAN OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY COUNCIL
FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT IN 1890 UNTIL 1898

JUST, GENEROUS, KIND
GREATLY BELOVED

Chapel
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
LIEUT: GENERAL LORD CALTHORPE
THIS CHAPEL
WAS ERECTED IN 1914
BY HIS WIDOW

Memorial ashes
ELIZA
DOWAGER THE LADY CALTHORPE
DIED AUGUST 26TH 1919
AGED 86

LIEUT. GENERAL.
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
SOMERSET JOHN
7TH LORD CALTHORPE
BORN 23RD JANUARY 1831
DIED 18TH NOVEMBER 1912
AGED 81 YEARS

Photographs:

David Earle
E & S Calthorpe
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
S J Calthorpe
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral
PDF file: Memorial Service

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