Menu
SPOGES
  • Home
  • St Giles’ Church – Funeral Hatchments
    • Thomas Dawson
    • Elizabeth Gayer
    • George Godolphin Osborne
    • Sophia Gomm
    • Frances Hamilton
    • George Howard
    • Elizabeth Howard
    • Lucy Howard
    • Frances Howard-Vyse –
    • Richard H. Howard-Vyse
    • Richard W. Howard-Vyse
    • Granville Penn
    • Isabella Penn
    • John Penn
    • Juliana Penn
    • Thomas Penn
    • Frances Pigot –
    • John Turner
    • Mr Woolhouse
    • The missing two
  • St Giles’ Church -stained glass
    • ‘Bicycle Windows’
    • Coat of Arms
    • Gurkha & Crucifixion
    • Mothers’ Union
    • In Memory – Allhusen
    • In Memory – Casson family
    • In Memory – Coleman
    • In Memory – Evangelists & Jesus
    • In Memory – Howard Vyse
    • In Memory – Revd Parry
    • In Memory – Revd Shaw & Jesus
    • In Memory – St Giles
    • In Memory – World War II
    • In Memory – Officers killed in South Africa
    • Removed – in Detroit
    • Removed – Hastings glass
    • Unseen – Overlooked
  • St Giles’ Church – Interior memorials
    • 4th PWO Gurkha Rifles
    • Agnes & Basil Bacon
    • Revd Arthur Bold
    • Samuel Brenster
    • Clarges or Hascard
    • Sophia Gomm
    • Catherine Heathcote
    • Augusta Howard-Vyse
    • Frances Howard-Vyse
    • George & Lizzy Howard-Vyse
    • Granville Howard-Vyse & family
    • Howard & Mabel & Richard Howard-Vyse
    • Julia & Mildred & Richard Howard-Vyse
    • Richard & William & Thomas Howard-Vyse
    • Killed in South Africa
    • Nathaniel Marchant
    • Amélie & Edward Parry
    • Cecil Parry
    • John Parry
    • Frances Pigot
    • Revd Richard Redding
    • Alexandra & Jocelyn & William Thomson
    • Mary Thorpe
    • John Turner
    • Georgiana Vyse
SPOGES

Agnes & Basil Bacon

Bengal India Cannes Memorial St Giles Colonel Basil Ebenezer Bacon 1876 Agnes Mary Maynard 1866 Gower Stoke Hospital StokePoges Clockhouse Stoke Poges
Memorial in St Giles for Colonel Basil Ebenezer Bacon d 1876 and wife Agnes Mary Maynard 1866 daughter of Revd Gower of Stoke Hospital Stoke Poges

Basil Ebenezar Bacon was brought up by his parents Joshua and Mary in London. In April, 1838 he was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge but two months later was in the East Indian Company army cadetship as an ensign in the infantry. By June, 1853 he had been involved in several campaigns including Gwalior, Punniar, Punjaub and battles of Sadoolapore, Chillianwallah and Goojerat and become a Captain.

In 1859 he married Agnes Gower in Calcutta (now Kokata), India. She was the daughter of Revd. John Alexander Gower who for several decades was the Master of Lord Hastings Stoke Hospital, Stoke Poges. (The neighbour at the vicarage, 5 years younger than Revd. Gower was Revd. the Hon. Sydney Godolphin Osborne.) Agnes and Basil during their seven years of marriage had two sons and one daughter. Agnes died in 1866 in India. Her brother at the time was an officer in the Bengal Cavalry and later died in 1881 in India.

Biritish women india victorian empire angloindia
A Woman in India – From William Tayler, Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians (London, 1842)
Photo courtesy of the British Library

In 1864 Basil was promoted to Lt.Colonel in the Bengal Staff Corps and in 1869 was promoted to Colonel as Deputy Secretary in the Government of India, Military Department.

Bengal Staff Corps waist belt army administration India BritishEmpire Empire
Bengal Staff Corps waist belt buckle

Basil died in 1876 as a widower. He left one son called Basil and one daughter called Agnes who were still minors. Basil’s father in-law, Revd. Gower became the children’s guardian and was the next of kin.

Lord Hastings Stoke Hospital Park Clock House StokePoges Poges Almshouse Gower
Lord Hastings Stoke Hospital, also known as the ‘Almshouse’ or now, the Clock House in Park Road, Stoke Poges. Image from the late C19.
Photo credit: Hetherington & Secrett, Gerrards Cross

©2022 SPOGES | WordPress Theme by Superb WordPress Themes
Go to mobile version