To the memory of Sir CHARLES WAGER Kt. Admiral of the White, First Commissioner of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellor. A man of great natural talents, improved by industry and long experience; who bore the highest commands, and passed through the greatest employments, with credit to himself and honour to his country. He was, in his private life, humane, temperate, just and bountifull; in his publick station, valiant, prudent, wise and honest; easy of access to all; plain and unaffected in his manners; steady and resolute in his conduct; so remarkably happy in his presence of mind, that no danger ever discomposed him; esteemed and favoured by his King; beloved and honoured by his country. He dyed 24 May 1743, aged 77. This monument was erected by Francis Gashry, Esq. in gratitude to his great patron A.D.1747.
His coat of arms (argent, on a cross azure five bezants), and crest of a Moor's head crowned with rush leaves, appears at the top of the monument. On the pedestal a mourning figure of Fame holds an oval relief portrait of the admiral and on either side are carved naval trophies.
married 8 Dec 1691
On 8 December that year he married Martha Earning (b. 1664×6, d. 1748), daughter of Anthony Earning, a Commonwealth navy captain who went into the East India Company's service after 1660 and died while captain of the George in the Indian Ocean
To the memory of Sir CHARLES WAGER Kt. Admiral of the White, First Commissioner of the Admiralty and Privy Counsellor. A man of great natural talents, improved by industry and long experience; who bore the highest commands, and passed through the greatest employments, with credit to himself and honour to his country. He was, in his private life, humane, temperate, just and bountifull; in his publick station, valiant, prudent, wise and honest; easy of access to all; plain and unaffected in his manners; steady and resolute in his conduct; so remarkably happy in his presence of mind, that no danger ever discomposed him; esteemed and favoured by his King; beloved and honoured by his country. He dyed 24 May 1743, aged 77. This monument was erected by Francis Gashry, Esq. in gratitude to his great patron A.D.1747.
His coat of arms (argent, on a cross azure five bezants), and crest of a Moor's head crowned with rush leaves, appears at the top of the monument. On the pedestal a mourning figure of Fame holds an oval relief portrait of the admiral and on either side are carved naval trophies.
married 8 Dec 1691
On 8 December that year he married Martha Earning (b. 1664×6, d. 1748), daughter of Anthony Earning, a Commonwealth navy captain who went into the East India Company's service after 1660 and died while captain of the George in the Indian Ocean
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