Biography of Frank Alexander Garforth 1859-1901

Before January 1855 [his father] William Francis Willoughby Garforth of Wiganthorpe in Yorkshire and [his mother] Jane Agnes Duff (age 19) were married.

On 8th May 1859 Frank Alexander Garforth was born to William Francis Willoughby Garforth of Wiganthorpe in Yorkshire and Jane Agnes Duff (age 24).

On 29th June 1883 Frank Alexander Garforth (age 24) was promoted to Lieutenant.

On 31st December 1896 Frank Alexander Garforth (age 37) was promoted to Commander.

In July 1900 Frank Alexander Garforth (age 41) incurred Their Lordships' displeasure by exhibiting an absence of seamanlike precautions in use of a hawser aboard the second class battleship Conqueror, which caused several men to be injured.

After 1901. Cross in the churchyard at the Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling East [Map] to various members of the Duff family and their descendants: [his grandfather] Major George Duff, [his grandmother] Janet Barnes (sister of Rector Reverend James Alexander Barnes), [his half-brother] George Ernest Garforth, Frank Alexander Garforth (age 41)

Major George Duff: On 29th September 1799 he was born to Captain Patrick Duff. Before 21st January 1848 he and Janet Barnes were married. On 21st January 1848 he died at Weisbaden.

Janet Barnes: On 25th January 1800 she was born to John Barnes. On 30th January 1880 she died.

George Ernest Garforth: he was born to William Francis Willoughby Garforth of Wiganthorpe in Yorkshire.

On 7th November 1901 Frank Alexander Garforth (age 42) drowned while in command of the guardship H.M.S. Hotspur at Bermuda. He was found to have fallen into the sea, but "no evidence exists to shew how he got there." He was buried at the Royal Naval Cemetery, Ireland Island, Sandys Parish, Bermuda.