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6 unusual facts about Trinity House


Charles Freshfield

On 7 October 1834 Freshfield married Elizabeth Sims Stephenson (1812–1849), only daughter of Daniel Stephenson, an Elder Brother of Trinity House.

Herne Windmill

A new pair of sails was constructed by Hunt, the work being made possible by support from SPAB, the Duchess of Kent and Trinity House.

Jules-Maurice Quesnel

Quesnel was named a justice of the peace, also served as warden of Trinity House at Montreal from 1830 to 1839 and was a member of the commission for the Montreal harbour.

Lionel Lukin

Lukin was clearly a man ahead of his time, for despite his achievement, his appeals for the adoption of his craft, made to the then First Lord of the Admiralty and the Deputy Master of Trinity House fell resoundingly upon ‘deaf ears’.

Offshore off-licence

The goods were loaded onto a different vessel, a former Trinity House support vessel called the Cornish Maiden.

Ripple Mill, Ringwould

In 1895, Trinity House contributed towards repairs to the mill, which was marked as a navigational landmark.


Spert Island

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Sir Thomas Spert, Controller of the King's Ships in the time of Henry VIII, founder and first Master of the Mariners of England, which later became the Corporation of Trinity House.

Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin

In retirement Lewin became Chairman of the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, a Liveryman of the Skinners' Company and of the Shipwrights' Company and an elder brother of Trinity House.


see also

Arthur Morrell

Arthur R.H. Morrell, mariner and member of the Corporation of Trinity House

Newington, London

The Trinity House Estate, laid out around an 1820s classical church by Francis Octavius Bedford, is still largely in existence.