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Captain George Johnstone Hope

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Location: Westminster Abbey, London

Type: Wall monument

Material: White marble

Date of death: 2 May 1818
Place of death: The Admiralty

Where buried: In the NW tower chapel, west wall, north side.

Description: Wall monument made of white marble, consisting of a pyramid, with a coat of arms at the top, and below naval trophies, flags, coils of rope and cannon balls. The inscription is mounted on two brackets with lion heads.

Sculptor: Peter Turnerelli
Dimensions: 254 cm × 137 cm

Transcription

Sacred to the Memory of

Rear Admiral Sir GEORGE HOPE K.C.B.

Erected by several CAPTAINS of the royal Navy

who served under Him as MIDSHIPMEN

Note: Erected 1820 at a cost of £150.
The Admiral was in fact buried a little distance away in the middle aisle of the nave on 9 May 1818, but his actual grave is now covered by the later brass to Sir George Gilbert Scott.

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