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

Sir Augustus James William Clifford (Admiral)

Title: Sir
Forenames: Augustus James William
Surnames: Clifford
Date of Death: 08/02/1877
Burial Date: 15/02/1877
Age at Death Years: 89
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Admiral
Map Reference Number: RSHG 004 B1/C1 B2/C2
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 5 No Plot Number
Grave Description: Large upright cross on triple plinth with engraved lettering and iron railing.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: Heavily overgrown on south side and top overgrown with ivy tree hiding cross and making unstable (December 2017)

Cross now fallen backwards (February 2019)
Other Information: Added 2nd & 3rd names, death & burial dates and age, source: Registrars and Newspaper records

Inscription:

(top tier)
ADMIRAL AUGUSTUS J.W. CLIFFORD
DIED 1877

(middle)
ELIZABETH FRANCES
SECOND DAUGHTER OF THE R.H. (?) JOHN TOWNSHEND
AND WIFE OF
ADMIRAL AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD BART.
BORN AUGUST 2ND 1789, DIED AT NICE 10TH APRIL 1862
FONDLY LOVED AND DEEPLY MOURNED

(bottom tier)
"INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT" LUKE XXIII 46

Photographs:

Colin Hunt
A & E Clifford December 2017
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Colin Hunt
A & E Clifford December 2017
Photographer: Colin Hunt
Kate MacDonell
A & E Clifford February 2019
Photographer: Kate MacDonell

Related Documents:

PDF file: Obituary; Funeral; Naval Career
PDF file: Funeral report from the Hampshire Telegraph

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