A Tale of Two Monuments

[MartinR]

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?

[stuartwaters]

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 - 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

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.

[grandarog]

Thanks MartinR,Very interesting.

[MartinR]

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