Ephemera

Selection of church plaques / tablets in Turkey

Crimean Memorial, Anglican Church, Istanbul

Commemoration plaque for the establishmen of the church in 1868.

Plaque for Alfred George Mountain.

Plaque in memory of the first chaplain of the church, Alfred George Curtis.

Plaque for Cuthbert Hamilton Ringwood-Peach MBE.

Tablet in memory of Ambassador Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe (1825-1869).

Tablet in memory of Consul-General to Roger Short, victim of terrorism in 2003.

St. Maria Draperis, Roman Catholic, Istanbul

Tablets in memory of Alphonse Casimir Hübsch Baron de Grossthal, Danish chargé d’affaires to Constantinople, Alphonse Hübsch Baron de Grossthal (one of the sons of Alphonse Casimir?), (general family info - book segment), Etienne Glavany (1830-1905) (general info on family) - series of images courtesy of Yaman Yamaner.

Engraving by Antoine Ignace Melling of the former Hübsch Mansion in Büyükdere. The Hübsch family was one of the oldest German families in Istanbul. A member of the family, Friedric Antoine Hübsch (1685-1775), who arrived in the city in 1701, was accepted as the Polish and Saxon Ambassador in 1740, and his son, Antoine Frederic Hübsch (1740-1814), was accepted as the Danish Ambassador in 1790. Friedrich Hübsch von Grossthal, the envoy of Denmark and Saxony, was a banker and merchant, a native of Pera and a partner in the firm of Hübsch and Timoni; he was ennobled by Emperor Joseph II in 1782, the title Grossthal’ being a miss-translation of Büyükdere (large valley - in reality large stream), where he had his summer residence. The mansion was built in 1750 by the Hübsch family, who maintained good relations with the Ottoman court. The mansion and its garden, which climbed in terraces up the slopes, were visited and praised by Sultan Ahmed III and Sultan Mahmud II in two separate centuries. The mansion disappeared in the late 19th century. A portion of the land where the mansion stood in Büyükdere is now within the gardens of the Russian Summer Embassy.

St. John the Evangelist, Anglican, Izmir

Inscription in Greek, directly on the wall, suggesting this person was one of the contributors to the building of the church: ‘In your kingdom remember Lord your servants Edwin Freshfield and his wife Zoe and their son Edwin’. Edwin Freshfield was a Byzantinist scholar, which possibly was why he chose this inscription to be in Greek.

The local British community WWI dead commemorative plaque with details of the soldiers - additional information on the side plaque:

The above 4 plaques were probably moved from the Boudja All Saints Church when it was deconsecrated around 1960.