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Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez

Edward Hodges Baily (1788–1867)

Fountain Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey

Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez
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General Sir Thomas Saumarez served as Nelson's second-in-command at the Battle of the Nile. The memorial shows a mourning widow or daughter in conventional pose with an elegantly stepped pedestal on which the urn rests, and sculpted drapery both on the figure itself, and flowing down the sides of the pedestal from the urn. At the bottom of the memorial is the family coat of arms.
Title

Monument to General Sir Thomas Saumarez

Medium

marble

Accession number

GY1_LS_S019

Acquisition method

commissioned by his widow

Work type

Relief

Custodian

Town Church

Work status

extant

Access

time restrictions apply

Access note

church opening times

Signature/marks description

E.H.Baily, R.A. Sculp. London. 1845

Inscription description

the memorial records his military achievements including in the American Revolutionary War, and in the war with France in the 1790s; he administered the government of New Brunswick (Canada) the appointed groom of the bedchamber to HRH The Duke of Kent; it then states who erected the memorial

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Located at

Fountain Street, St Peter Port

GY1 1HE

Located inside Town Church, west wall of the south transept.

Artist or maker

Edward Hodges Baily

1788–1867

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