- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 112222
- Description
- Wall mounted, portrait orientated, rectangular white marble tablet, with incised inscription picked out in black. The tablet is placed within a decorative Gothic styled, blind window with a crocketed canopy, castellations across the top and tall crocketed spire finials.
- Inscription
- IN A VAULT/ BENEATH THE VESTRY LIES THE BODY OF/ THE HONOURABLE JOHN MONCKTON,/ WHO DIED AT HIS SEAT FINESHADE ABBEY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE/ ON THE 3RD OF JANUARY 1830,/ AGED 91./
HE WAS THE THIRD SON OF JOHN FIRST VISCOUNT GALWAY BY HIS/ SECOND WIFE JANE DAUGHTER OF HENRY WESTENRA ESQUIRE OF/ QUEEN'S COUNTY IRELAND (ANCESTOR OF THE PRESENT LORD ROSSMORE)/ HIS FATHER HAVING FIRST MARRIED THE LADY ELIZABETH MANNERS/ DAUGHTER OF JOHN SECOND DUKE OF RUTLAND BY WHOM HE HAD WILLIAM/ THE SECOND VISCOUNT HIS SUCCESSOR, AND ROBERT A GENERAL, IN THE/ ARMY, WHO WAS SECOND IN COMMAND UNDER GENERAL WOLFE IN THE/
MEMORABLE BATTLE OF QUEBEC, AND AFTERWARDS CAPTURED/ THE ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE IN 1762/
THE OTHER CHILDREN BY THE SECOND MARRIAGE WERE HENRY WHO/ FELL AT THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH COURT HOUSE IN AMERICA/ ON THE 28TH JUNE 1778./ EDWARD WHO SETTLED AT SOMERFORD IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD/ AND MARY COUNTESS OF CORK AND ORRERY, HE MARRIED ANNE,/ SISTER AND HEIRESS OF MAJOR THOMAS ADAMS, BY WHOM HE HAD/ FIRST JANE,/ SECOND MARY ANNE WIFE OF GENERAL SIR GEORGE PIGOT BART OF/ PATSHULL PARK STAFFORDSHIRE, AND THE THIRD ELEANOR COUNTESS/ OF HARBOROUGH/
IN THE SAME VAULT/ WITH THE HONOURABLE JOHN MONCKTON, AND DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF/
ANNE HIS WIFE WHO DIED ON THE 21ST SEPR 1807, AND/ JANE HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER WHO DIED UNMARRIED 17TH APRIL 1805./ ALSO OF/ THE REVD HUGH MONCKTON,/ HIS NEPHEW, SEVENTH SON OF THE HONOURABLE EDWARD MONCKTON,/ WHOSE DEATH IS RECORDED IN A SEPERATE TABLET IN THE CHANCEL./ AND OF/ JOHN MONCKTON ESQR,/ THIRD SON OF THE ABOVE HONOURABLE EDWARD MONCKTON,/ LATE OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY BENGAL CICIL SERVICE, AND/ RESIDENT AT THE COURT OF OUDE, WHO SUCCEEDED BY PURCHASE TO/ THE LORDSHIP OF THIS MANOR AND THE OTHER ESTATES OF HIS UNCLE/ THE HONOURABLE JOHN MONCKTON,/ HE DIED IN LONDON ON THE 14TH OF JUNE 1852/ AGED 71.
