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Religion => Churches, Mosques, Synagogues and Temples => Topic started by: MartinR on August 25, 2023, 06:02:25 PM

Title: A Tale of Two Monuments
Post by: MartinR on August 25, 2023, 06:02:25 PM

The enclosed PDF may be of interest, if it displays correctly!

Title: Re: A Tale of Two Monuments
Post by: grandarog on August 25, 2023, 06:41:59 PM

Thanks MartinR,Very interesting.

Title: Re: A Tale of Two Monuments
Post by: stuartwaters on August 27, 2023, 06:17:40 PM

Hi MartinR and thanks for your interesting post. I was aware of the Henniker memorial in Rochester Cathedral. Amongst his business interests, John Henniker owned a shipyard in the Chatham Intra area, approximately in the area of the former Featherstones store. A link to a list of warships built for the Royal Navy in his yard is here:

https://kenthistoryforum.com/index.php?topic=2.0 (https://kenthistoryforum.com/index.php?topic=2.0) - just scroll down until you see the listing

Here is a link to John Henniker's page on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henniker,_1st_Baron_Henniker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henniker,_1st_Baron_Henniker)

I read somewhere (and can't find it now) that John Henniker also had the contract to supply the Royal Dockyard at Chatham with fir for mastmaking.

Title: Re: A Tale of Two Monuments
Post by: MartinR on August 27, 2023, 06:58:35 PM

Thanks Stuart.  I'd pulled information from both WP and Ancestry.  I hadn't chased down more that bare information because I was trying to make sense of the relationships and titles.  IF I get time I might work it up into a more extended piece.  Anyone got any tuits, specifically the round ones?