Blandford Forum

Erected by his Shipmates, Schoolfellows & Friends

To the memory of GEORGE VINCE A.B.R.N.

Of the exploring ship, Discovery.

A member of the expedition to the

Antarctic Regions

under Captain   Robert F Scott, R.N.

Born at Blandford September 20, 1880.

Died by a fall over an icecliff into the sea

at Ross Island March 11, 1902.

The only one of the ship’s company who lost his life.

IN MEMORIAM – THOMAS SLAUGHTER

BORN OCTOBER 25 1825. DIED OCTOBER 5 1883

HE SERVED IN THE 10^TH HUSSARS FOR 24 YEARS DURING WHICH

HE TOOK PART IN THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN AND AFTERWARDS

FOR 13 YEARS IN THE DORSET YEOMANRY AS A SERGEANT

AND REGIMENT SERGEANT MAJOR. THIS IS ERECTED AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM

BY THE QUEEN’S OWN DORSETSHIRE YEOMANRY.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

SERGEANT REGINALD BUTLER

WHO DIED OF ENTERIC FEVER

AT PRETORIA, AUGUST 6^TH 1900.

AGED 26 YEARS

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS OLD

COMRADES, THE OFFICERS, N.C.O.’S

AND MEN OF THE

BLANDFORD TROOP D.Q.O.Y.

AS A TOKEN OF THEIR REGARD AND ADMIRATION OF HIS GALLANT CONDUCT.

Dulce et decorum est pio palria mori

GIVING THANKS

TO GOD FOR THE

DEAR MEMORY

OF

CHARLES HENRY

FYNES-CLINTON

ASSISTANT CURATE AND

RECTOR OF THIS PARISH

1871-1913. WHO DIED

6 JULY 1915. HIS WIFE

CHILDREN AND SISTER

(PAULINE) GAVE THE

PROCESSIONAL CROSS

TO THIS CHURCH

IN TENDER LOVE

LOVE ALL PITYING

JESU BLEST

GRANT HIM THINE

ETERNAL BEST

ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS

IN MEMORY OF

THE REV. WILLIAM HARTE B.A.

WHO DIED ON THE 28^TH JUNE 1863, AGED 48

HAVING BEEN 11 YEARS CURATE AND 10 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH

THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD HE LABOURED DILIGENTLY

AS A FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST,

SEEKING TO TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND TO BUILD UP

GOD’S PEOPLE IN THEIR MOST HOLY FAITH

HE DIED, AS HE HAD LIVED, LOOKING FOR THE MERCY

OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE.

THE RESULT OF HIS LABOURS THE GREAT DAY WILL DECLARE

IN DEAREST LOVE AND

GRATITUDE HER CHILDREN

PLACED THIS TABLET IN

MEMORY OF

THOMASINA GORDON

FYNES-CLINTON

WIFE OF THE

REV C H FYNES-CLINTON

WHO AFTER 40 YEARS OF

DEVOTED SERVICE TO ALL

IN THIS PARISH DIED

1 APRIL 1929 AND WAS

BURIED WITH HIM IN THE

CHURCHYARD OF OLD MALDEN

MAY THEY REST IN PEACE

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

IDONEA

THE BELOVED DAUGHTER OF THE

REV C H FYNES-CLINTON

RECTOR OF THIS PARISH

SHE DIED AT BOULOGNE DEC 3^RD 1881

IN THE 18^TH YEAR OF HER AGE AND IS

INTERRED IN THE CHURCHYARD OF LANGTON

BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY OF

THE REVEREND H T PARKER M.A.

16 YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH

HE DIED JANUARY 25: 1855 AGED 48 YEARS

DEEPLY REGRETTED BY HIS PARISHIONERS

WHO HAVE PLACED THIS TABLET AND

TWO MEMORIAL WINDOWS ABOVE IN

TESTIMONY OF THEIR AFFECTION FOR HIM

ST JOHN XIII C.34V;

HE IS BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD OF WALTON ON THAMES

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

THE REVEREND GEORGE WILLIAM JOHN CHARD M.A.

16 YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH, WHO DIED,

LAMENTED, AS HE WAS BELOVED. JUNE 12^TH 1836, AGED 59

AND WHOSE MORTAL REMAINS TOGETHER WITH THOSE OF

ELIZABETH FRANCES HIS WIFE AND THEIR INFANT SON, ARE

DEPOSITED IN THEIR FAMILY VAULT AT TARRANT HINTON.

THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY HIS AFFLICTED PARENTS

IN MEMORY OF THE LOSS OF AN AFFECTIONATE AND DUTIFUL SON

BENEFACTIONS
RICHARD ROGERS ESQ gave £290, since augmented to £500, O.S.S.A. The interest to be applied in clothing poor people of Blandford and apprenticing poor boys.
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PRISCILLA DENNET spinster gave £50, since augmented to £67 O.S.S.A. The interest to be given to 3 poor families who constantly attend church.
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 WALTER RIDOUT ESQ gave £15, since augmented to £40 O.S.S.A. The interest to be laid out in buying wheat for the poor, when above 5 per bushel.
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BENEFACTIONS

WILLIAM WILLIAMS ESQ gave £3000 in land, £14 to be applied every third year in clothing 2 poor boys of Blandford and apprenticing them to fishermen, or ship-masters, and the residue of the profits of such land, in every such third year to be bestowed on clothiers, serge-makers, linen weavers, stuff-makers and felt makers of Blandford, giving at least £5, and not more than £8 to each at any one distribution. He also directed that £5 should be paid to the schoolmaster of Blandford, to teach poor children, and that the remainder be divided amongst certain poor men, and women, to the amount of £5 each yearly.