Some brief notes and images.
This work is ongoing and will be added to as more information turns up.
Henry Cheere seemed to have had something of a monopoly in providing the monuments for Naval Officers.
Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. Captain Phillip de Sausmaurez, in Westminster Abbey, the Malloy Monument at Shadoxhust, and Matthew Michell at Chitterne, Wilts etc.
The Monument to Captain William Cust (d. 1748).
Grantham, Lincs.
Captain William Cust, of the Boston, who, with the
Rear Admiral's permission, was serving as a volunteer on board the Elizabeth.
He was killed in action 8 March 1748 at Port Louis, Hispaniola (now the Island of Haiti and Porto Rico)
The family of Captain William Cust, who according to surviving correspondence were deeply affected by his death, channelled all of their feelings of loss into a punctilious concern that the bust upon his monument (erected Grantham, Lincolnshire 1749) should be a good likeness (Silent Rhetoric - Craske Yale 2007).
Henry Cheere, was made to repeat his terracotta sketches of William's bust more than three times in order to achieve the chosen effect for the funeral monument erected at Grantham, Lincolnshire -
On July 18th 1747 Peregrine Cust wrote from the family house in Downing Street to his family in Lincolnshire that he had "been to see Cheere, the statuary, who has two busts of my late brother, both unlike, he is making a third from Sir John's picture which does not promise to be like.
Notable for the mention of the maquettes or models for the bust on the monument.
Written by Sir John Knox Laughton Naval Historian; Professor
of Modern History, King's College, London.
Near the west door of the Choir lieth interr'd the body of
Sr THOMAS HARDY Knt. who died the 16 of August 1732 in the 67 year of his life
and according to the directions of his will was buried in the same grave with
his wife, who died the 28 of April 1720. He was born in Jersey and descended
from Clement Le Hardy who removed from France and settled in that island, and
was made a Justice (commonly call'd there a Jurat) in 1381, and was succeeded
in the same office by his son and grandson: his great grandson Clement was made
a Leiutenant Governor, and had the office of Bailiff (or cheif magistrate) of
the island, with the Seigneurie de Meleche confer'd upon him for life by Henry
the 7, as a reward for the most important service he had rendered him when Earl
of Richmond, after the disappointment he had met with in his first attempt upon
England, where being separated from the rest of his fleet by a storm he landed
privately in Jersey, intending to stay there till he could obtain leave from
the French king to come into his dominions, and was shelter'd at the house of
the said Clement, who protected him and convey'd him safely to Normandy at the
hazard of his own life, notwithstanding a proclamation from Richard the 3 for
apprehending the said Earl, had been publish'd in the island; his descendants
have on all occasions distinguish'd themselves to the utmost of their power by
thier loyalty & fidelity to the Crown.
In Memory of The Honourable Henry Medley, Vice Admiral of the Blue, and
Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean, who died at Savona Aug 5th 1747.
Inscribed: He was son to Robert Medley Esq, by Dorothy daughter to William
Grimston of Grimston Garth Esq. He married Ann, daughter and heiress to
Nathaniel Goche merchant in Hull by Dorothy sister to Thomas Grimston Esq
Grandson to the Above named William and had issue by her one daughter who died
young.
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