Location: St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, London
Type: Memorial Tablet
Material: White marble
Date of death: 14 January 1818Place of death: Greenwich Hospital
Location: White marble tablet, on the north wall of the Church, under the Admiral Blake window.
Description: A very simple tablet, with text in three colours
Dimensions: 38 cm × 33 cm
Note: The church burial register states that the actual grave lies in the north vault of the church, the same side as the memorial tablet.
Transcription
In memory of
William Gordon Rutherfurd, C.B.
captain of h.m.s. swiftsure at the
Battle of Trafalgar.
Died 14. Jany 1818.
also of
Lilias Rutherfurd, his wife,
Died 5. Nov 1831.
Both buried here.
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