{"id":4869,"date":"2016-10-28T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=4869"},"modified":"2016-10-28T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:07:15","slug":"henry-ching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-people\/john-ching\/henry-ching\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry was born in 1846 to <a href=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-people\/john-ching\/\">John<\/a> and Sarah Ching. His father was a chemist. After he had finished his education, Henry joined the Royal Navy. He was serving aboard \u2018H.M.S. Shannon\u2019 (<em>below<\/em>) as a midshipman, when it called into Port Royal, Jamaica in December, 1863. Here Henry contracted \u2018yellow fever\u2019 and died within a few hours. He was interred at Port Royal.<br \/>\nThe officers and crew of the \u2018H.M.S. Shannon\u2019 paid for a commemoration stained glass window to be erected in his me memory at St. Mary Magdalene Church (<em>during its 1865 renovation<\/em>). The window represents \u2018Christ walking on the water\u2019 and \u2018Christ bidding Peter come to him on the water.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4870\" src=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HMS-Shannon.jpg\" alt=\"hms-shannon\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HMS-Shannon.jpg 540w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HMS-Shannon-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visits: 54<\/p><!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4869\" data-postid=\"4869\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4869 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry was born in 1846 to John and Sarah Ching. His father was a chemist. After he had finished his education, Henry joined the Royal Navy. He was serving aboard \u2018H.M.S. Shannon\u2019 (below) as a midshipman, when it called into Port Royal, Jamaica in December, 1863. Here Henry contracted \u2018yellow fever\u2019 and died within a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4869\/revisions\/4872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}