Blickling, Norfolk, UK
Church of St Andrew
Monument to Brigadier John and Thomas Hobart. Marble. Centre south aisle. Commissioned by their father in 1742.
The inscription under a lugged architrave is set under a broken pediment, framing a cartouche with blank coat of arms and decorated with a Vitruvian scroll and garland. The simple inscription notes that the monument was commissioned by their father (Sir John Hobart 5th Baronet (1693-1756) ) in memory of his sons’ ‘inviolable friendship.’ According to Blomefield: ‘John, late a brigadier-general in the army of his present Majesty, and captain and governour of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall, died at his house in Queen's-street, November 7, 1734, and Thomas, of Lincoln's-Inn, who died (presumably in 1742) unmarried.
Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Erpingham: Blickling', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 381-409
Blickling, Norfolk, UK
Church of St Andrew
Monument to Brigadier John and Thomas Hobart. Marble. Centre south aisle. Commissioned by their father in 1742.
The inscription under a lugged architrave is set under a broken pediment, framing a cartouche with blank coat of arms and decorated with a Vitruvian scroll and garland. The simple inscription notes that the monument was commissioned by their father (Sir John Hobart 5th Baronet (1693-1756) ) in memory of his sons’ ‘inviolable friendship.’ According to Blomefield: ‘John, late a brigadier-general in the army of his present Majesty, and captain and governour of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall, died at his house in Queen's-street, November 7, 1734, and Thomas, of Lincoln's-Inn, who died (presumably in 1742) unmarried.
Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of South Erpingham: Blickling', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 6 (London, 1807), pp. 381-409