37-598: Captain George Henry Towry (4 March 1767 – 9 April 1809) was a Royal Navy officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century who is best known for his service as commander of the frigate HMS Dido , in the action of 24 June 1795 in the Western Mediterranean Sea during the French Revolutionary Wars , when, in company with HMS Lowestoffe he successfully fought and defeated
74-560: A destroyer flotilla or squadron , and there was a corresponding administrative appointment ashore, until at least a decade after the Second World War . The title was probably used informally up until the abolition of frigate and destroyer squadrons with the Fleet FIRST reorganisation circa 2001. Ashore, the rank of captain is often verbally described as "captain RN" to distinguish it from
111-465: A French squadron of two frigates on an identical mission from the French commander Contre-amiral Pierre Martin . The squadrons engaged, Dido narrowly avoiding being crushed during a ramming attempt by Minerve and becoming entangled in the French ship's rigging. Driving off boarding attempts, Dido snapped off the French bowsprit and together with Lowestoffe then battered Minerve into surrender.
148-459: A Miss Chamberlayne and had a marriage noted for its "greatest harmony and most perfect happiness" until her untimely death in 1806 which left him grief-stricken. They had three children, two of whom survived infancy. Towry died of natural causes at his father's house in April 1809 and was buried at St Marylebone Parish Church . Captain (Royal Navy) Captain ( Capt ) is a senior officer rank of
185-472: A clock, the second circular in plan, has twelve Corinthian columns supporting an entablature, while the third is in the form of a miniature temple raised on three steps and surrounded by eight caryatids, with arched openings between them. The whole structure is topped by a dome and weathervane. The vaulted crypt, extending under the whole church, with extensive catacombs under the west side was used for burials until being bricked up in 1853. Since 1987, following
222-538: A four manual organ by Rieger Orgelbau . A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register . Members of the Bentinck family , including Listed below are some of the burials in the churchyard, which no longer exists because it has been made into a public garden. In 2013 the church began a series of exhibitions in the crypt featuring living British painters in collaboration with
259-540: A list of ministers of the parish since 1544. (It additionally notes that William Witham is given on Misplaced Pages as incumbent of St Marylebone until 1454, but states that he was in fact incumbent of St Mary-le-Bow .) In 1821 the parish Rectory, impropriated by the Dukes of Portland for the previous century, was restored to the incumbent clergyman (then Luke Heslop , incumbent since 1810). Heslop thus became Rector of St Marylebone. † Rector died in post The church contains
296-461: A marble mosaic floor, a fine marble pulpit and two balustrades (with Alpha and Omega on the latter). This new scheme combined Neo-Classicism with Pre-Raphaelitism , and included a gilded cross in the ceiling above the site of the original altar. Funded by subscription, it began in 1884 (with a memorial stone, laid by Mrs Gladstone, wife of the Prime Minister , in the outside wall of the apse) and
333-472: A recently completed chapel, which could be used until the new church was completed. The bishop stipulated that the old churchyard should be preserved, but also gave permission to enclose a new burial ground at the new site, The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was closer to the village, at the north end of Marylebone High Street. Having fallen into a state of decay, it was demolished in 1740. It
370-411: A small bell tower at the west end. The interior had galleries on three sides. Some monuments from the previous church were preserved in the new building. In 1818 it became a chapel-of-ease to the new parish church which superseded it. It was demolished in 1949, and its site, at the northern end of Marylebone High Street is now a public garden. Charles Wesley lived and worked in the area and sent for
407-460: Is informally referred to as "the captain" on board, even though holding a junior rank, but formally is titled "the commanding officer" (or CO). Until the nineteenth century, Royal Navy officers who were captains by rank and in command of a naval vessel were referred to as post-captains ; this practice is now defunct. Captain (D) or Captain Destroyers, afloat, was an operational appointment commanding
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#1732859108227444-635: The Royal Navy . It ranks above commander and below commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in the British Army and Royal Marines , and to a group captain in the Royal Air Force . There are similarly named equivalent ranks in the navies of many other countries. In the Royal Navy, the officer in command of any warship of the rank of commander and below
481-755: The French frigates Minerve and Artémise , capturing Minerve and driving off Artémise . He later commanded HMS Diadem at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797 and served during the Napoleonic Wars on the Transportation Board. Towry was born in March 1767, educated at Eton College and joined the Royal Navy at 13 under the patronage of Lord Longford . He served during the American Revolutionary War aboard HMS Alexander and participated in
518-538: The Mediterranean Fleet to exchange fire with French ships during Martin's cruise of 1794 , but was unable to prevent the French escaping into Gourjean Bay . In June 1795, Dido was ordered, with HMS Lowestoffe , to detach from the fleet off Menorca and search for the French Mediterranean Fleet near Toulon . On 24 June 1795, at roughly the midpoint between Menorca and Toulon, Towry encountered
555-698: The Spanish Fleet was defeated. Shortly afterwards Diadem returned to Britain and Towry took command of HMS Uranie and HMS Cambrian before the Peace of Amiens in 1802. At the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars Towry was given command of HMS Tribune , but after a winter patrol he became ill and was forced to withdraw from active service. He was given a sinecure on the Transport Board and continued in this position until its dissolution. In 1802 he married
592-485: The artists led group Contemporary British Painting . Artists exhibited in the programme include Matthew Krishanu , Claudia Böse , Mary Webb , Susan Gunn , Nicholas Middleton , Simon Burton , Alex Hanna , Pen Dalton , Simon Carter , Judith Tucker , Susie Hamilton , Julie Umerle , Greg Rook , Stephen Newton , Alison Pilkington , Marguerite Horner , Paula MacArthur , Nathan Eastwood , Linda Ingham , James Quin, Wendy Saunders and Robert Priseman . The church
629-624: The back of the church to commemorate the Brownings' marriage. This chapel later became a parish room known as the Browning Room, with the chapel transferred to the side of the church as the Holy Family Chapel. This room contained several items of Browning furniture which have since largely been stolen. The churchyard is now a Garden of Rest in the care of the City of Westminster. The church provides
666-489: The centre of the organ case was an arched opening with a "transparent painting" by Benjamin West , of the angel appearing to the shepherds. Other church furniture included a large pulpit and reading desk and high box pews . The steeple, placed over the central vestibule, rises around 75 feet (23 m) above the roof (and thus about 120 feet (37 m) above the ground). It is in three storeys;the first, square in plan, contains
703-590: The church ever since, usually on Good Friday . In 1826, the transparency above the altar was removed, the organ case reduced in size and the private galleries replaced by new ones for pupils of the National School. In 1882 the energetic new rector, the Revd. W. Barker led the parish council to extensively redevelop the church, to (in Barker's words) "bring it more into harmony with the arrangements and decorations suited to
740-457: The church in 1846 (their marriage certificate is preserved in the church archives). The church was also used in location filming for the 1957 film recounting their story, The Barretts of Wimpole Street . Composer Sir John Stainer wrote an oratorio specifically for the choir at St Marylebone; The Crucifixion was first performed in the church on 24 February 1887, which was the day after Ash Wednesday . It has been performed annually at
777-556: The church's rector John Harley and told him "Sir, whatever the world may say of me, I have lived, and I die, a member of the Church of England . I pray you to bury me in your churchyard." On his death, his body was carried to the church by eight clergymen of the Church of England and a memorial stone to him stands in the gardens in High Street, close to his burial spot. One of his sons, Samuel ,
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#1732859108227814-514: The church. Located behind the church is St Marylebone School , a Church of England school for girls. The first church for the parish was built in the vicinity of the present Marble Arch c. 1200 , and dedicated to St John the Evangelist . In 1400 the Bishop of London gave the parishioners permission to demolish the church of St John and build a new one in a more convenient position, near
851-592: The more junior Army and Royal Marines rank , and in naval contexts, as a "four-ring captain" (referring to the uniform lace) to avoid confusion with the title of a seagoing commanding officer. In the Ministry of Defence , and in joint service establishments, a captain may be referred to as a "DACOS" (standing for deputy assistant chief of staff) or an "AH" (assistant head), from the usual job title of OF5-ranked individuals who work with civil servants. The rank insignia features four rings of gold braid with an executive curl in
888-511: The other French ship, Artémise , played little part in the engagement and was easily driven off. Towry brought his prize back to the British fleet, where it was recommissioned as a Royal Navy frigate with the same name and Towry placed in command. In 1796, Towry was given command of the 64-gun ship of the line HMS Diadem and in February 1797 commanded her at the Battle of Cape St Vincent where
925-603: The reinterment of the 850 coffins it previously contained at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey , it has housed a healing and counselling centre. The church was completed in 1817, at an overall cost of £80,000. A local resident was Charles Dickens (1812–1870), in Devonshire Terrace, whose son was baptised in this church (a ceremony fictionalised in Dombey and Son ). Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett were married in this phase of
962-506: The relief of the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1782. Following the end of the war he continued in service under the Duke of Clarence and at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars he was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet under the patronage of Lord Hood . He was rapidly promoted and by 1794 was a post captain in command of the small 28-gun frigate HMS Dido . Dido was the only ship of
999-399: The religious demands of the present day". The new plans, by Thomas Harris (architect and churchwarden of the parish), removed the end wall and the upper galleries along the sides of the church (uncovering the windows' full length and letting in more light), created a chancel for a robed choir (with new carved mahogany choir stalls with angel ends) and a sanctuary within the new apse, and added
1036-537: The upper ring. When in mess dress or mess undress, officers of the rank of captain and above wear gold-laced trousers (the trousers are known as "tin trousers", and the gold lace stripes thereon are nicknamed "lightning conductors"), and may wear the undress tailcoat (without epaulettes). St Marylebone Parish Church St Marylebone Parish Church is an Anglican church on the Marylebone Road in London . It
1073-500: The west of London that had outgrown the previous church), but the scheme was abandoned and the land donated for it in Paddington Street purchased for a burial ground. In 1810–11 a site was secured to build a chapel-of-ease on the south side of the new road near Nottingham Place. facing Regent's Park . Plans were drawn up by Chambers's pupil Thomas Hardwick and the foundation stone was laid on 5 July 1813. When construction
1110-497: Was almost complete, it was decided that this new building should serve as the parish church, and so alterations were made to the design. On the north front, towards the new road, a Corinthian portico with eight columns (six columns wide, and two deep at the sides), based on that of the Pantheon in Rome , replaced the intended four-column Ionic portico surmounted by a group of figures. A steeple
1147-403: Was basically rectangular in plan, with two small extensions behind the entrance front, and two wings placed diagonally flanking the far end (the liturgical east ), which originally housed private galleries equipped with chairs, tables and fireplaces. Two tiers of galleries, supported on iron columns ran around three sides of the church. The organ case was immediately above the altar screen; in
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1184-410: Was built to the designs of Thomas Hardwick in 1813–17. The present site is the third used by the parish for its church. The first was further south, near Oxford Street . The church there was demolished in 1400 and a new one erected further north. This was completely rebuilt in 1740–42, and converted into a chapel-of-ease when Hardwick's church was constructed. The Marylebone area takes its name from
1221-456: Was built, instead of a planned cupola. No changes were made to the design of the interior, but plans to build houses on part of the site were abandoned. Entrance to the church from the north is through three doorways beneath the portico, each leading into a vestibule. There are arched windows above the outer doorways. A blank panel above the central one was intended to house a bas-relief depicting Christ's entry into Jerusalem. Hardwick's church
1258-406: Was buried there in 1751. The crypt was the burial place of members of the Bentinck family , including William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (died 1809). Construction of a new church was first considered in 1770, with plans prepared by Sir William Chambers and leadership given by the 3rd and 4th Dukes of Portland (owners of much of the area, by now a wealthy residential area to
1295-419: Was completed a year later. A bomb fell in the churchyard close by during the Second World War , blowing out all the windows, piercing the ceiling over the reredos in two places with pieces of iron railing from the school playground, and necessitating the church's closure for repairs until 1949, when fragments of the original coloured glass were incorporated into the new windows and a Browning Chapel created at
1332-481: Was in this church Francis Bacon was married in 1606, and its interior was portrayed by William Hogarth in the marriage scene from his famous series " A Rake's Progress " (1735). By 1722, its congregation was so large it needed a chapel of ease in the form of the Marybone Chapel, now St Peter, Vere Street . A new, smaller, church built on the same site opened in April 1742. It was an oblong brick building with
1369-428: Was later organist of the present church. It was also in this building that Lord Byron was baptised in 1788. Admiral Horatio Nelson was a worshipper here and his daughter Horatia was baptised here; Richard Brinsley Sheridan was married to Elizabeth Ann Linley here. This is also the church in which the diplomat Sir William Hamilton married Emma Hart (Amy Lyon), later Nelson's lover. The architect James Gibbs
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