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Major-General Flower Mocher Sproule

Memorials

Floor Slab – Maj.-Gen. Flower Mocher Sproule

Catalogue ID: 594
NADFAS ID: 1366

Description

Worn and pitted slate, which has lost substantial areas of surface with much of the white-filled inscription. It commemorates Major-General Flower Mocher Sproule (1760-1815), Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, who died while posted in Hull. He was from Bath. His widow Louisa remarried (to F. Corfield of Taunton) in Kensington in 1817.

Inscription and donor(s)

FLOWER MOCHER SPROULE
Major General in the British Service
Colonel [of the]
Royal [Regiment] of [Artillery]
died the 11th day of March
[1815], aged [55] Years

Subjects

Forename(s) Family name Dates
Flower Mocher Sproule 1815

Physical attributes & manufacture

Dimension Value Notes
Length 1710mm
Width 890mm

Location

Late 19th Century
Choir

Condition

2020

Stone is complete but in poor condition. Considerable loss of surface (including large sections of the inscription), pitting, and loss of areas of white filling in what survives of the text.

References

NADFAS (1986)

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