Yorkshire, Whixley - above ground
Tomb of Christopher Tancred of Whixley Hall, esquire, founder of this hospital born 1639, died August 1754
Christopher was the second son of Christopher Tancred 1705 of Whixley by 2nd wife, Catherine daughter of Sir John Armytage / Armitage of Kirklees.
He was the great great grandson of Charles Tancred who bought the manor and rectory of Whixley
Christopher the last male Tancred died unmarried leaving instructions that his body should not be put under ground. This has been literally obeyed, as his coffin stood for some time in the hall of the house, then in the wine-cellar, then contained in a sarcophagus in the almshouse chapel of the hall, now from 1905 in the north aisle of the church here.
He is said to have determined to disinherit his 5 sisters owing to some monetary disagreement with them. He left his house to be lived in, being called Tancreds Hospital, and estate for the maintenance of 12 decayed gentlemen (clergymen, commission land officers or sea officers of 50 years of age or more), these inmates to be called Tancred's pensioners , each of whom to receive 22 guineas annually, a separate apartment but the whole dine in common. He also founded for persons of ‘such low abilities as not to be capable of obtaining the education" 4 medical exhibitions at Caius college; 4 in divinity at Christ’s college, Cambridge, and 4 law studentships at Lincoln’s Inn, of which he was a bencher.
His carefully devised trust did not escape alteration. His death was followed by a lawsuit, in which the trustees succeeded in establishing the trust on 8 Nov. 1757
Yorkshire, Whixley - above ground
Tomb of Christopher Tancred of Whixley Hall, esquire, founder of this hospital born 1639, died August 1754
Christopher was the second son of Christopher Tancred 1705 of Whixley by 2nd wife, Catherine daughter of Sir John Armytage / Armitage of Kirklees.
He was the great great grandson of Charles Tancred who bought the manor and rectory of Whixley
Christopher the last male Tancred died unmarried leaving instructions that his body should not be put under ground. This has been literally obeyed, as his coffin stood for some time in the hall of the house, then in the wine-cellar, then contained in a sarcophagus in the almshouse chapel of the hall, now from 1905 in the north aisle of the church here.
He is said to have determined to disinherit his 5 sisters owing to some monetary disagreement with them. He left his house to be lived in, being called Tancreds Hospital, and estate for the maintenance of 12 decayed gentlemen (clergymen, commission land officers or sea officers of 50 years of age or more), these inmates to be called Tancred's pensioners , each of whom to receive 22 guineas annually, a separate apartment but the whole dine in common. He also founded for persons of ‘such low abilities as not to be capable of obtaining the education" 4 medical exhibitions at Caius college; 4 in divinity at Christ’s college, Cambridge, and 4 law studentships at Lincoln’s Inn, of which he was a bencher.
His carefully devised trust did not escape alteration. His death was followed by a lawsuit, in which the trustees succeeded in establishing the trust on 8 Nov. 1757