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The monument and memorials of St James' constitute a record

Summary
A list of all memorials is as follows, sortable by surname, memorial date and location. Clicking a name will show the full description:

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Collet Barker (1831)
Captain Barker (1784-1831) was a soldier and administrator and friend of explorer Charles Sturt who said his character was like that of Captain James Cook. A successful administrator, he was described as "kindhearted, indefatigable and sincere". Other memorials to him are at Mount Barker, South Australia and on Hindmarsh Island.

Richard Hill (1836)
Richard Hill was the first minister of St James' and served in that capacity from the consecration of the church in 1824 until his sudden death aged 54 while on duty in May 1836. The following month, William Broughton was enthoned as Bishop of Australia in the church, which was still "in deep mourning" for Hill.

Margaret Kerr (1837)
Margaret Kerr's death notice appeared in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser of 10 August 1837. This was the first newspaper printed in Australia. The announcement described her as the eldest daughter of William Kerr of Wooloomooloo.

John Gilbert (1845)
John Gilbert (1812-1845) was a naturalist and explorer who worked with John Gould and collected many new specimens of Austalian birds and plants.

Dulce et decorum est pro sciencia mori is a variation of the Horatian phrase Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Other memorials to Gilbert include one to a mountain range, a township and the Gilbert River in Queensland as well as in names of Australian animals and plants, including the critically endangered Gilbert's potoroo (Potorous gilberti).

Edward Beatty (1845)
Beatty was mentioned in the Governor's despatches.

George Phillpotts (1845)
George Phillpotts had seen service in the First Maori War during which, as a crew member of HMS Hazard, he "ordered the bombardment of Kororāreka". He "strode to his death with a bared cutlass, hatless, in a sailor’s shirt and grey flannels." Phillpotts, Sir Everard Home and then Governor FitzRoy are all mentioned in correspondence during this time.

Mary Fitzroy (1847)
Mary Fitzroy (1790 - 1847) was the daughter of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond. She had married Charles Augustus FitzRoy on 11 March 1820 and together they had four children. With her husband and second son George, Mary travelled on HMS Carysfort and arrived in Sydney on 2 August 1846. Sir Charles FitzRoy, who had was previously Governor of New Zealand, had been appointed to replace George Gipps in Sydney, where he served from 1846 to 1855 as the tenth Governor of New South Wales After sixteen months in the colony, Lady Mary died in a carriage accident at Government House, Parramatta.

Alexander and Eliza Macleay (1848)
Alexander Macleay (1767- 1848) was a leading member of the Linnean Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the NSW Legislative Council. Alexander married Eliza (1769 - 1847) on 15 October 1791 at St Dunstan's Church, London. Alexander and Eliza were the parents-in-law of William Dumaresq.

Edmund Kennedy (1848)
Edmund Kennedy

Jackey Jackey

Sarah Ramsay (1853)
Sarah Ramsay had arrived in Sydney with her husband and three Miss Ramsays aboard the Templar on 27 August 1844.

James Everard Home (1853)
James Everard Home (1793 - 1853) entered the Royal Navy in 1810 and succeeded his father, Sir Everard Home, to the Baronetcy in 1832. Correspondence shows that he signed himself "Everard". He had been made Captain in 1837, commanding HMS North Star from 1841 to 1846. He left Sydney to serve in the Flagstaff War in New Zealand between 11 March 1845 and 11 January 1846. He was appointed to the Calliope in 1850, and arrived again in Sydney on 20 July 1851 where he died, having fallen ill en route from New Zealand. Home's funeral took place on 4 November and his body was carried on one of Calliope 's gun carriages. Flags at the Government House and at the Signal Station, and on all the ships in harbour, were hoisted at half mast. It was noted that one of his last public acts was an appeal on behalf of the widow and daughter of Matthew Flinders.

Robert Wardell (1839/1854?)
Robert Wardell established the first independent newspaper in Australia.

William Wild (1861)
William Vandermeulen Wild (1834/5 - 1861) was a member of the New South Parliament. His obituary pointed out that his early death from illness at age 27 was "a melancholy instance of the uncertainty of life" and commented that "it is not meet that a young man of so much promise as Mr Wild should pass away without a tribute to his memory".

John Wilkie and Theophilus Oliver (1862)
John Lunan Wilkie

William Dumaresq (1868)
William Dumaresq (1793-1868) as a captain in the Royal Staff Corps, worked on the construction of the Rideau Canal. On 15 October 1830, he married Christiana Susan, second daughter of Alexander McLeay.

Harriet Hordern (1871)
Harriet Hordern was the only daughter of Samuel Marsden of Windsor and niece of the merchant Thomas Marsden of Sydney. When she married Anthony Hordern (1819 - 1876) at St Matthew's Church, Windsor on 17 July, 1841 she married into what became the highly successful retail family of Anthony Hordern & Sons. Her husband, his father and her son were all called Anthony and her daughter was also named Harriet.

Robert (1891) and Anna Allwood (1890)
Robert Allwood became the first incumbent priest at St James' and held the position from 1840 until his retirement in 1884. He was also the first Anglican cleric to become a member of the Senate of the University of Sydney and served there as vice-chancellor from 1869-82. He and his wife had arrived in Sydney on the Kinnear in December 1839.

Emily Hall (1899)
Emily Hall (1877 - 1899) died suddenly aged 22, at Riley's Hotel in King Street, Sydney. She was the only daughter of Mrs Fred W. Forster.

P.W.C. Drage (1900)
P.W.C Drage was a participant in the Battle of Diamond Hill which took place on 11th and 12th June during the Second Boer War. The colonial mounted infantry was serving under General Edward Hutton and Drage's death was reported in London. In a letter from the front, describing the battle as "the most severe fight of the campaign", Drage is reported as having been "shot in two places. He died shortly after."

John Cash Neild (1911)
Colonel Neild (1846 - 1911) was a politician who served as alderman in Wollahra and as representative for the NSW seat of Paddington before being sent by New South Wales to become a Federal Senator. He was described as a "stormy petrel" in politics (once addressing the House "for nine hours on end"). He had a short but "meteoric" military career and at his funeral at Waverley cemetery was given full military honours. He was also known for his personality as well as his poetry. The memorial tablet, carrying military emblems was unveiled by Wentworth Sheilds, rector at the time.

John Cash Neild (1911)
The second memorial to Neild. It recognises his work on behalf of old-age pensioners. One of the first motions he tabled in Parliament concerned the need for old-age pensions and he was regarded as "practically the father of the old-age pension system in New South Wales".

Alick C. Bannerman (1924)

 * Alexander Chalmers (Alick) Bannerman was a public servant as well as a keen and successful amateur cricketer. Bannerman was a member of the Australian cricket team from 1878 until 1893; a member of the 1878 Australian Eleven that visited England and the Australian cricket team's 1880 tour of England, which was the first Australian Test match played on English soil. He knew W.G. Grace and Fred Spofforth and had also played at Old Trafford.
 * The AC Bannerman collection in the National Museum of Australia, consists of a silver-plate tankard presented to Bannerman by Mr (later Sir) Frederick Thomas Sargood "on the occasion of the 1880 tour.
 * Bannerman's personality was described as "quaint and straightforward," and as one of the greatest "that ever graced the Australian stage of cricket". His memorial, which incorporates two crossed cricket bats in front of a wicket, was given by his widow, who was the sole benefactor of his will.

Ruby Dickinson (1918)
Ruby Dickinson was a nurse who served as part of the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I at Lemnos, Egypt, France, and England. She died aged 32 in London and was buried with military honours in the Australian cemetery in Harefield, England. The memorial tablet was unveiled at the evening service on 6 July 1919.

John Hain (1929)
John Hain was a pastorialist and businessman whose funeral service took place in the Church of England section of the South Head Cemetery and was conducted by the Rev. Philip Micklem, who was rector of St. James' at the time.

Eleanor Hain (1932)
Eleanor Hain was the wife of John Hain who predeceased her and for whom she erected a memorial in the church. Her memorial, erected by their daughter, matches that of her husband.

Emily Sibthorpe (1943)
Emily Sibthorpe

Aboriginal reconciliation memorial
The Reconciliation plaque remembers the aboriginal clan on whose land the church was built.

Arthur Phillip (2014)
The plaque commemorating Arthur Phillip (1738 - 1814) was unveiled on 31st August during an ecumenical service in St James to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Phillip's death. The guest of honour was Phillip's successor, the 37th Governor of New South Wales, Marie Bashir. The plaque was presented by the Australasian Pioneers' Club and is similar to the memorial to Phillip placed in Westminster Abbey on 9 July.

James Cook and Joseph Banks (2016)
The plaque commemorating James Cook (1728 - 1779) and Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820) was unveiled at the Patronal Festival Evensong on 24 July 2016 by Paul Brunton, Emeritus Curator at the State Library of New South Wales. Brunton described the pair as the "odd couple" who "inaugurated European Australia" and thought that it was an "inspired idea" to commemorate them together because "particularly on the Endeavour voyage of 1768 - 1771 ... they worked as a harmonious and productive team.