Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Alexander George Sutton (Lieutenant)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Alexander George
Surnames: Sutton
Date of Death: 25/07/1893
Burial Date: 28/07/1893
Age at Death Years: 30
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Lieutenant
Map Reference Number: RSHG 031 B1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section E Plots 1276 & 1277
Grave Description: Very large double plot with high surrounding walls of white stone with decorative black railing surround. Base slab of concrete and gravel. Very wide central triple plinth with plain cross, broken off and leaning against plinth. Lead lettering to east faces of plinth. Linked to Richard Francis Sutton, 5th Baronet family plot.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Overgrown with brambles, partly cleared to read inscriptions. Cleared March 2018.
Other Information: Added rank and burial date, source: Newspaper and Burial records

Images of the Yacht 'Creole' on which Lieut. Sutton died, courtesy of the Mersea Museum/ Cedric Gurton collection and John Leather collection
The yacht was built in 1890 and scrapped in 1931

Inscription:

(top tier)
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ALEXANDER GEORGE SUTTON
SON OF SIR RICHARD SUTTON 4TH BARONET

(mid tier)
DIED JULY 25TH 1893, AGED 30 YEARS.
"IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH"

Photographs:

Colin Hunt
Sutton (Mar 2018)
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Colin Hunt
Sutton (Mar 2018)
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Colin Hunt
Sutton (Mar 2018)
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Cedric Gurton Collection
'Creole' Racing Cutter Yacht
Photographer: Cedric Gurton Collection
John Leather collection
'Creole' Racing Cutter Yacht
Photographer: John Leather collection
John Leather collection
'Creole' Racing Cutter Yacht
Photographer: John Leather collection

Related Documents:

PDF file: Sudden Death
PDF file: Obituary; Funeral

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