The plaque is on the back of one of the choristers stalls in the chancel.
South side, back row, seventh from the west end.
SIR HERCULES ROBERT
PAKENHAM K.C.B. EIGHT
YEARS LIEUT. GOVERNOR
OF PORTSMOUTH DIED
MAR 8 1850 AGE 68
DD: HIS DAUGHTER
ELIZABETH THISTLETHWAYTE.
Further Information
General Pakenham served at the siege and capture of Copenhagen in 1807, also the Peninsular Campaigns of 1808-12, including the battles of Roleia, Vimiera (wounded), Busaco, and Fuentes d'Onor, siege and storm of Badajoz (severely wounded at the assault), he was also wounded at the action of Obidos, 15th August 1808. Sir Hercules hasa received the Gold Medal for Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajoz; and the silver war medal with two clasps for Roleia and Vimiera.
He was eight years Governor of Portsmouth commanding the South-Western District.
[From the 1873 Guide to the Church]
At St James-Without-the-Priory-Gate Church in Southwick (a few miles north of Portsmouth) there is a memorial which records the deaths of the 4 sons of Lt. General Sir Hercules Pakenham. Edward William was killed at Inkerman in 1854, Robert Max was killed during the Siege of Lucknow in 1857, Edmund Powerscourt died at Fort Gwalior in 1861 and finally Charles Wellesley died "of decline" on the Hydaspes in 1877.
[From St George's News, Waterlooville]
See Also
The Parliamentary Biography
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