{"id":8119,"date":"2025-06-06T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:20:57","slug":"memorial-plaque-for-charles-gervaise-boxall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/memorial-plaque-for-charles-gervaise-boxall\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Gervaise Boxall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<em>by B. van Cleve<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorehamfort.co.uk\/past\/sir-charles-gervaise-boxall-1851-1914\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Gervaise Boxall<\/a> was born on 30\/08\/1851 at Delves House, Ringmer, Sussex, as second son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.co.uk\/genealogy\/records\/william-percival-boxall-24-4vhwg2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Percival Boxall<\/a>, and his wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.co.uk\/genealogy\/records\/caroline-money-24-3z7rjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caroline Money<\/a>. He was baptised on 02\/10\/1851 in Ringmer. He died in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Though the memorial plaque that was erected in his honour in St. Peter\u2019s Church is severely damaged, the <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/restoring-damaged-text-the-c-g-boxall-memorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text could be reconstructed<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8121&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL SIR CHARLES GERVAISE\u00a0 BOXALL K.C.B. BORN IN SUSSEX IN 1852 AND EDUCATED AT BRIGHTON COLLEGE HE ACHIEVED DISTINCTION IN MORE THAN ONE FIELD A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION HE BECAME LIEUT- COLONEL COMMANDING THE 1<sup>ST<\/sup> SUSSEX VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY AND AFTERWARDS HONORARY COLONEL OF THE 1<sup>ST<\/sup> HOME COUNTIES R.F.A HE WAS THE CHIEF ORGANIZER OF THE CITY OF LONDON IMPERIAL VOLUNTEERS RAISED AND EQUIPPED BY VOLUNTARY EFFORT TO TAKE PART IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR FOR THIS AND OTHER PATRIOTIC SERVICES HE WAS APPOINTED AN HONORARY LIEUT-COLONEL IN THE ARMY AND CREATED A KNIGHT COMMANDER OF THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH HE DIED IN BRIGHTON ON MARCH\u00a0 6<sup>TH<\/sup> 1914\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ET JUSTUM POTERAS ET SCRIBERE FORTEM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 THIS\u00a0 STONE\u00a0 IS SET UP BY MANY OF HIS FRIENDS AND COMRADES IN ARMS<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Latin text seems to be taken from Horace and it reads in translation: &#8216;Yet, you could write about him as both just and courageous.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri MS; font-size: small;\">There is some confusion about the birth year of Charles Gervaise Boxall. Some sources state that he was born in 1852, as the memorial plaque does, but most sources give the birth year as 1851.<\/span><\/em><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;40px&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/memorial-plaque-for-charles-campion\/\"><strong>\u2190 previous memorial plaque<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/memorial-plaque-for-james-ross-gwatkin\/\"><strong>next memorial plaque \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetersbrighton.org\/heritage\/floor-plan-for-memorial-plaques\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Floor plan of memorial plaques in St. Peter&#8217;s Church Brighton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Gervaise Boxall was the grandson of William Boxall, who is also commemorated in a memorial plaque in St. Peter&#8217;s Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":8121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial-plaques"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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