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The letter that I have used as a backing here is extremeley interesting...it was a man writing to an executor of a will virtually begging for what was his and his children's inheritence. By all accounts they were nearly all destitute! Hope he got what was due to him!
This is the only image that appeared on this found roll of film when we processed it. Because the camera and film were found at a flea market, I like to think that they came from an estate sale, and someone in charge of packing up the home after the death made this photograph in the hallway with the decedent's camera before plunging into that grim business.
This, then, would be the view from within Death's house, looking back out into the world – a forbidden glance like that of Orpheus. Coming that close to death can't help but change you, shattering the seeming continuities of the world.
The title, therefore, is from Auden:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
-- W.H. Auden
The Taj Cape Town is located in the heart of historic Cape Town at the entrance to St. George’s Mall, the famous pedestrian precinct. The hotel itself, previously occupied by the South Africa Reserve Bank, Temple Chambers, and finally, the Board of Executors presents a rich blend of history and contemporary architecture.
Each of the 177 rooms and suites at the Taj Cape Town are tastefully decorated and feature a wide assortment of luxury amenities. Tall ceilings and large windows create a spacious feeling while the juxtaposition of old-world design and modern amenities provide quality and comfort. Finally, every room features a spectacular view of either Table Mountain or the Cape Town skyline.
There are three main restaurants and one delightful cigar bar at the Taj Cape Town. The Bombay Brasserie serves up fine Indian cuisine using traditional ingredients. Mint is the hotel’s casual dining restaurant and specializes in local fare as well as some international cuisine. The Twankey is a hotel specialty and delivers excellent seafood complemented with flowing champagne. Finally, cigar lounge offers a connoisseur’s selection of cigars and alcohols.
Activities at the Taj Cape Town are centered around the vibrant life of the city itself. Guests are encouraged to explore the many local shops, cafes, and museums. Within the hotel, guests can take advantage of the fully-equipped gym, heated indoor pool, and the exclusive Jiva Grande Spa.
Church of St Peter,
Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.
The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’
The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:
Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;
Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;
Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;
Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.
Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’
Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.
The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.
Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’
www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015
detail of flowers
Visual review.
- Bag 3
- 1x1 micro figures: Darth Vader in front.
Then back row left to right; Dengar, IG-88, Boskk, Zuckuss, 4-LOM and Boba Fett.
Some Medium Super Star Destroyers I Kit bashed and designed. The 4th one down was the prototype for the Executor.
Lord Street, Southport, Merseyside.
In the Year of Our Lord 1792. This house was built In Memory of DW SUTTON of North Meols, who was the first Founder & Executor of South Port, which was call'd his folly for many Years and it proved that his foresight was his Wisdom which should be remembered with Gratitude by the LORDS of this Manor and the Inhabitants of the PLACE ALSO.
This column was erected AD 1860 by The Improvement Commissioners as a tribute of respect to the late WILLIAM SUTTON Commonly known as the Old Duke The Founder of Southport. He was born at Churchtown, North Meols, AD 1752 and died there May 22nd, 1840. He erected almost upon this spot AD 1792, the First House in what is now the flourishing town of Southport, then a wilderness of Sandhills. The First House originally called 'The Duke's Folly' was afterwards known as the Original Hotel. A Memorial Tablet taken from its walls has been placed on the NE side of this Column and this street has received the name of Duke Street in remembrance of the Old Duke.
The original monument, comprised of a simple, square monument with carved plaques on the south-west and north-east faces, was erected in 1845. In 1860, an iron lamp was erected above the monument. It was dismantled and moved to the present location in 1912 when the road system was altered. The plaques, currently set in the wall of Lord Street, were originally part of a larger monument sited 24 yards west, a spot now covered by Lord Street itself. No further information on the erection of this monument has been found.
William Sutton is regarded as the founder of Southport. He was born in Churchtown in 1752, dying there on 22nd May 1840. The memorial in its original form stood on the site of the first house erected in Southport in 1792 by Sutton. It was called 'The Duke's Folly', later renamed the 'Original Hotel'.
Description: Micalago "Lion Tamer." No 289, A.H.H.B. Bred by the Executors of the late Hon. A. Ryrie, M.L.C.
Location: New South Wales, Cooma, Australia
Date: 1920
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built 1910, Clinton Day, architect
Grant + Market, San Francisco
An elegant Beaux-Arts building was built in 1910 to house the Union Trust Company, California’s first successful trust institution, whose founder was San Francisco banker Isaias W. Hellman.
Trust companies offered extended bank services by acting as executors, trustees, and transfer agents. In 1923, Union Trust merged with Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank to form Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Company. Wells Fargo & Co., founded in 1852, was a dual business enterprise – a bank, and a nationwide express company that transported money and valuables, sold money orders and traveler’s checks, and transferred funds by telegraph to 10,000 locations across the United States. In 1905, the bank was split off from the express business, and it promptly began a series of mergers and takeovers that culminated in the 1990s and paid off in a big way – Wells Fargo is now one of the four largest banks in the United States.
Wells Fargo still occupies the beautiful Union Trust building today. The Union Trust Building was designed by architect Clinton Day (1846-1916), who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but moved to California with his family when he was eight. His father, Sherman Day, was a state senator and co-founder of the College of California (predecessor of the University of California at Berkeley). Clinton Day’s other projects included UC-Berkeley’s Chemistry Building, Stanford University’s Memorial Chapel, and the Union Life Building. He was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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IM000153.JPG 2004
In primary school we used our micro machines to recreate the epic battles between the Rebels and the Empire. I was the only one with a Super Star Destroyer and thus was often not allowed to use it out of fairness. That said this ship is definately lucky as my team always won whenever I used it.
Letter from Whites & Co, 28 Budge Row, Cannon Street, London to Whites and Pomeroy, Wymondham regarding Will of Samuel Parker 6th November 1885.
The letter points out that the proposal of Edward Boyce Pomeroy to be able to charge for his services as an Executor is not Professional.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
Later documents deal with the Bankruptcy of the Company in the early 1900’s. The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
(Brasília - DF, 05/08/2020) Palavras do Diretor-Presidente da Eletronorte, Roberto Parucker.
Foto: Isac Nóbrega/PR
James（Jacques Joseph）Tissot（1836 -1902）
Oil on canvas
68 x 92 cm
Signed bottom - left : J.J. Tissot
Provence:
John Polson, of Tranent and Thornly, his executors' sale, Christie's London, 21 July 1911 ; Sir Edward J. Harland, Baroda House, London, his executors' sale, Christie's London, 31 May 1912 ; Ingegnoli Collection, Milan, his executors' sale, Galleria Pesaro Milan, May 1933 ; Private Collection, Milan 2014.
Exhibition :
London, Grosvenor gallery, 1879, number 95 as Rivals, Manchester, Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, 1879, number 355, priced £400 ; Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, La Mostra Nazionale di Pittura, "L'Arte eil convito", 1957, number 188.
Literature :
Athenaeum, 10 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition", pp. 607-8, 4 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery", p.3 ; Graphic, 10 May 1879. "The Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Galleries" by Tom Taylor, p. 463 ; Manchester Guardian, 3 Sep 1979. " Royal Institution, First Notice" p.5 ; The Spectator, 31 May 1879, p.691 ; The Times, 2 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery", p.3 ; Ugo Ojetti, La Galleria Ingegnoli, Milano（1933）, p.9 and plate 191 ; Willard E. Misfeldt, James Jacques Joseph Tissot : A Bio-Critical Study, PhD dissertation, Washington University, 1971, pp. 162-163, 191 ; Willard E. Misfeldt 1982, Albums, p.52 ; Michael Wentworth, James Tissort, Oxford, 1984, pp. 88, 119, 141, 145-6, 147, 151, 203 and plate 159 ; Christopher Wood, Tissot : The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot, 18836-1902, Boston, 1986, p.106 ; Margaret Flanders Darby, "The Conservatory in St John's Wood", Seductive Surfaces : The Art of Tissot, dited by Katherine Lochnan, New Haven, 1999, pp. 163, 166, 180-181 and figure 73.
Robilant + Voena
Masterpiece London 2015
Church of St Peter,
Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.
The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’
The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:
Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;
Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;
Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;
Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.
Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’
Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.
The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.
Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’
www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015
Duneira house and gardens at Mount Macedon.
(Extract from Macedon Ranges cultural heritage and landscape study/Trevor Budge and Associates. 4 v. 1994.).
Henry Suetonius Officer reputedly aquired the Duneira site from
1872-1877 (Blocks 4,5,10,11,14) paying some £84 for 38 acres but
rate listings give Robert Officer as the owner. .
.
Suetonius Henry Officer (1830-1883).
Officer was born in Hullgreen, New Norfolk, Tasmania 1830, the
son of Sir Robert & Lady Officer. He was educated in Edinburgh
with his brother, Charles, and returned to the colonies, seeking
gold in Victoria but eventually settling for pastoralism in
company with his brothers and Charles Miles{ ibid.}. They managed
stations in the Wimmera and the Riverina, James marrying in 1866
and commencing construction of a 20 room homestead at Murray
Downs & Willakool, two adjoining properties fronting the Murray
River. After experimentation with irrigation, via steam pumps and
windmills, he was able to develop extensive orchards and crops. He was also, like his brother, interested in
acclimatisation, having developed an ostrich farm on his property
(Charles was a council member of the Zoological & Acclimatisation
Society for 10 years, president in 1887). .
.
Blighted by illness, Suetonius reputedly moved to Leighwood,
Toorak (Melbourne) in 1881, having erected the first stage of
Duneira at Mount Macedon, but died two years later. However his son, Henry jnr. was
born at South Yarra in 1869 and his next child, Jessie, was born
at Macedon in 1877, indicating that he was in residence at both
places prior to the dates previously supposed..
.
Suetonius probably commissioned the first stage of Duneira to be
erected as a summer house between c1874-6. The architect Levi
Powell is thought to have designed a house for him there around
that date. The first improvements listed on the site were
stables in 1874 when Robert Officer was rated as owning the site. The house was reputedly not occupied regularly
until c1881 when Suetonius moved to Toorak.
However it appears he and his family were in residence at Duneira
by 1877..
.
When Suetonius died in 1883 his wife, Mary Lillias Rigg Officer
(nee Cairns), of Glenbervie, Glenferrie Road, Toorak was the
co-executor of the estate, with merchant Robert Harper; she is
the rate occupier in 1888. Mrs Officer was the
sister of Mrs Robert Harper (Huntly Burn) and Mrs John C lloyd
(Montpelier, later Timsbury): all three houses were reputedly
built in the same period... .
.
The house bricks for the first stage were said to have come from
the Macedon Brick Kiln (once near the Macedon railway station,
set up in c1888-9?) with external walls built in 14" Flemish bond
from slop-moulded bricks (9 inch by 2.1/2). The bricks were reputedly carted
from Macedon by Cogger. The footings were of bluestone
and reputedly dressed sandstone blocks also survive, suggesting
that the first stage was face brick with stone quoins and the
next renovation c1888 added wings and a cement coating to the
whole complex. Floor frames were reputedly supported on stone
dwarf walls and joists were 6x2.1/2 inch jarrah, with flooring
being 6 inch pine}. Seaweed was apparently used for
ceiling insulation..
.
The servants' wing verandah was skillion in form with timber
posts with classical capitals. The main verandah had coupled
posts (rebuilt with single posts) a panelled frieze and slimmer
capitals set just under the frieze rail}. The
balustrade may have been of single cast-iron balusters..
.
Just prior to the sale to the speculator, James Smith Reid in
1890, and during the occupation of Edward Dyer, major additions
were made to the house complex and a reputedly a caretaker's
lodge was placed at the gate (survives, altered c1920s) but this
appears to have been added by Reid in the early 1890s. .
.
The added rooms were reputedly: billiard (32'x24') and dining
rooms, kitchen, servants bathroom, service block with 5 rooms
(engine room, dairy, pantry, store, boiler room, built of
Northcote machine made 9" brickwork). Damp proof coursing was
used in these additions compared to the slate of the first stage
and acetylene gas (engine room) was thought used for lighting
from this period, as reticulated in 1.1.2" mains and 1/2 inch
branches to internal and some external verandah lights.
Cast-iron elaborately detailed water radiators were also used,
with hot water pumped from the boiler room, and later a duplicate
boiler allowed hot water to be reticulated taps in the house{
ibid.}..
.
The description in rate books expands to villa and cottages (on
37 acres) for the first time under Reid in c1893 but the annual
valuation had already peeked in 1888 at £200 in the occupation of
Edward Dyer. An Edward Dyer was listed at that time as a fruiterer in
Burwood Road, Hawthorn..
.
The water supply is from a concrete tank fed by a spring.
Outbuildings include timber clad stables, storerooms,
blacksmith's shop, coachman's room, milking bails, hay shed and a
green house. The stables (extended) were described as having had
a shingled gabled roof (rear skillion) with loft entered via an
external stair at the north end. It had a blacksmith's
shop (altered for garage c1941), carriage and coachman's rooms,
two stores and vertically boarded main doors{ ibid.,p24}. The
milking and hay sheds had hipped roof forms and timber cladding
and frame. The interior was white-washed. The greenhouse
in the secret hedged garden is of a later date, with a timber
frame built up on 11" cavity brickwork walls, with a brick floor
and heated water pipes under each shelf. The boiler is near the
entry..
.
The `Gisborne Gazette' reported on Duneira in 1903 under the
heading of `A Popular Health Resort':.
`Duneira certainly merits a few remarks though beautiful
residences and grounds are by no means rare in that locality..
(when Reid purchased it, it was `little better than a wilderness'
and he had spared no expense to restore it).. After passing the
lodge at the main entrance, a broad serpentine drive leads up to
the house and from there the grounds are laid out in broad
sloping lawns surmounted with choice borders and fringed with
trees which however do not interfere to any great extent with the
view. There is of course no lack of flowers which grow
luxuriantly on the mount but the great feature of Duneira is the
lawns, those open green expanses which delight the eye at all
times of the year. the secret of this perennial verdure is to be
found in the copious water supply with which Macedon is blessed
(spring at rear of house, tapped by tunnelling 40m into the hill,
ie. grass grows up to base of Monterey pines)..
.
During Reid's time there, the valuation increased marginally in
1899-1900 and again soon after, with Reid's address being given
as care of Rosstrevor Magill, South Australia, in c1909-10. JS Reid died in 1922, leaving
the property to the management of JS Reid jun..
.
The main garden elements are: sweeping lawns, box hedges, weeping beech and cherry, extensive hedges (holly, laurel), a hedged
`secret garden' with green house, mature firs, elm and chestnut ì
avenues. There is also a fountain and a wide spreading weeping elm to the rear of the house, near the tennis court..
.
Significant Trees:.
`Ulmus x hollandica'.
`Prunus' "shirotae".
`Albies procera'.
`Ilex kingiana'.
Draft details of the Income for Mary Ann Morton, widow of Dr. Richard John Morton, Aylsham, Norfolk. 1906-07
Mary Ann (Marion) Magar born circa 1855 the daughter of Maurice Edward Magar and Mary Magar. She married Richard John Morton 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth.
Richard John Morton born in 1849 the son of Richard Kay, also a Surgeon and Eliza Mary Needham Cook. He married Mary Ann (Marion) Magar 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth. Richard died 20th October 1902. For up to 4 years after his death payments were still being made and collected by Thomas Purdey, Solicitor executor of Dr. Richard John Morton and his wife and recorded.
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Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.
This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.
Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation
composite details of the 2 halves of the of the signature at the base of each pilaster: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.
Probate records say that Luke lived at 172 Erlanger Road, New Cross. He left £6577 13s 10d to Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Company Ltd.
Lot of money for the time. As the son of a butcher who worked as a clerk I do wonder where he got it from.
Found Luke on the 1911 census. He is shown as being the brother of the head of the household and a clerk. I think he was probably actually the brother of Esther Eastop though. They live at 71 Blackheath Road, Greenwich.
William Eastop 55
Esther Eastop 43
Esther Stockwin 64
Luke Stockwin 38
Nellie Stockwin 40
Winnifred Knight 18
William Eastop is a moulder.
Got the Stockwin family in 1871
Luke Stockwen 49
Esther Stockwen 25
Esther Stockwen 3
Nelly Stockwen 9 Months
Luke snr is a butcher, although London Evening Standard - Thursday 11 January 1877 describes him as a 'sausage skin dresser'.
Luke jr must have been born in about 1873.
Luke snr seems to die in 1876 aged 60.
By 1881 Esther is head of the household. She is a general shopkeeper.
Esther Stockwin 34
Esther Stockwin 13
Nellie Stockwin 10
Luke Stockwin 8
Alice Tong
There is quite a case involving Luke Stockwin snr mentioned in London Evening Standard - Monday 16 December 1878.
"Exchequer Division (before Mr Justice Hawkins and a common jury.)
Knight v Stockwin
Mr Marshall Griffiths QC, appeared for the Plaintiff and Mr Day QC and Mr Gore represented the defendant. Mr Griffiths in opening the case for the Plaintiff, said that his client was Mrs Knight who resided at Bromley in Kent. She had brought the action to recover 233 from the Defendant, Mrs Stockwin who was the widow and administratrix of Luke Stockwin. Mrs Knight in 1867 was a young woman residing at Bromley with her mother and sister, and Luke Stockwin was then a butcher and meat salesman in the Cattle Market, and resided as a lodger with the Plantiff’s mother. Early in 1867 Luke Stockwin, whom the plaintiff fully believed to be a single man, proposed marriage to her, and eventually she agreed to accept his proposals. They went to London and were married at a registrar’s office on 12 May 1867. They then returned to Bromley and lived together for some years and had three children which were registered by Luke Stockwin as the children of Mr and Mrs Stockwin.
A person by the name of Gascoigne, who was a master salesman in the cattle market, and in whose employ Luke Stockwin was, came down to see his employee during his last serious illness. Gascoigne then told the Plaintiff that Stockwin had been married about 20 years previously to a woman who was still living. When Luke Stockwin died, as he did shortly afterwards, the Plaintiff consulted a solicitor, who advised her to advertise for the next of kin. The result was that the legal wife, who was the present defendant, appeared and claimed the property, and turned Plaintiff and her children out of doors.
The present action only had reference to an amount of 223 which was composed of two sums of 100 and interest which had been given to Gascoigne on trust, and which Luke Stockwin bestowed during his life on the Plaintiff as a gift for the benefit of herself and her children. The Defendant, however, by papers which she found in the house, discovered the existence of the money and made a claim upon Gascoigne for it. The Plaintiff having also made a similar demand the present action was brought, upon the request of Gascoyne, to decide who had the legal right to the money.
Mr Justice Hawkins, soon after the case was opened, suggested that it was desirable that the parties should, if possible, come to terms. It was ultimately agreed that 200 should be given to the Plaintiff and 33 to the defendant out of the money which had been paid into the court, each party paying her own costs.
Instruction and details of the Will of Samuel Parker, Grocer, Draper and Tailor of Wymondham, Norforlk, dated 7th November 1885. His business was carried out at Browick, Wymondham and all Businesses carried out in the name of Parker and Sons also belong to him. He has no shares in the Fancy Boot and Shoe Business in the names of Parker and sons or as Parker’s Fancy Stores except as a Creditor, they belong to his son James.
He names his wife, Caroline Parker and Solicitor Edward Boyce Pomeroy of Wymondham as Executors. He names his children as James Sparkhall Parker (also to be a Trustee), Caroline Laura Parker, Leonard Samuel Parker (also a Trustee and named Leonard James Parker elsewhere in the document) and Jessie Limmer Parker.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
#5 Grosvenor The Duke and Duchess of Manchester property for centuries.
SURROGATE'S COURT,
County Of New York.
In the Matter
of
the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Harry B. Hollins,John L. Cadwalader and Frederick Ogden Beach, as Executors of the Last Will and Testament of CONSUELO, DOWAGER
Duchess Of Manchester, deceased.
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Extract from Account of Proceedings,
Verified 20th May, 1912.
SCHEDULE II.
Statement of other fuets affecting the administration of the Estate.
The testatrix up to the time of her marriage, had been an American citizen, residing in New York, but by reason of her marriage became a British subject and a resident of London, England. At the time of her death the larger part ofher estate was located in New York and elsewhere in the United States, and with reference to that property she provided for a separate administration by the executors now accounting herein and by them in their
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capacities are trustees. The remaining property is under administration by the general executors and trustees under a grant of probate in England.
Death duties or taxes on all the property of the estate, including that in America, have been levied in England, the place of domicile of the testatrix, but these taxes have not been entirely collected owing to the fact that the payment would occasion a deficiency of assets under the control of the executors in England unless recourse were had to jewelry, personal belongings located in England, and the family residence in London. The duties so imposed are of three-fold character, denominated respectively Estate, Legacy and Settlement Estate Duties, and with regard to the property under the control and administration by the executors accounting herein the amount levied aggregated the sum of £71,700. All these duties are levied on rights ofsuccession enjoyed by the legatees under the will by the law of England. Nevertheless, the bulk of the estate of the testatrix is under the control of the executors appointed by this court, and is to remain under administration by them on distribution to them as trustees. The general executors who were appointed in England have ascertained that after using all available personal securities and cash under their control in paying the duties charged on both classes of property—viz., on the American estate and general estate—there will be a deficit of £20,000 or thereabouts, unless recourse be had to personal belongings, jewelry, pictures and heirlooms of the testatrix, which in large part were specifically bequeathed, the family residence in London, which is a leasehold and which is located at Number 5 (irosvenor Square, and the contents of said residence.
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in England, Chancery Division, by the general executors against the Duke andDuchess of Manchester and their children and other persons interested in the estate, to determine a number of questions affecting the administration of the estate, and among them the question whether the general executors were liable to pay death duties in England on the American assets, a judgment was rendered to the effect that the death duties in England hereinabove referred to were properly payable by the general executors upon the entire estate, including the American assets. Such further proceedings Mere taken under that judgment that an order was made therein, dated February 20, 1912, charging such death duties upon the estate, and intimating that any sums of money sent by the American executors to England might be impounded for the payment ofsuch death duties as were charged by reason of succession under the will to the American assets, whatever the purpose of such payments or to whomever made.
The executors of the estate in England have urged that the American executors should remit to 21 them sufficient amounts of capital to supply such deficit and thereby avoid the necessity of a sale of the personal heirlooms and belongings, and the family residence in London, as there are ample assets under the control of the American executors.
An order was therefore made on the 28th day of March, 1912, in the said suit hereinbefore referred to by which it was directed that unless the American executors should remit to the general executors the sum of £20,000 within a certain time specified, the executors in England should proceed to a sale of the leasehold No. 5 Orosvenor Square. It has been urged that such payment would subserve the orderly administration of the estate and the in22 Extracts fromAmerican Executors' Accounts
terests of the family, and, besides, remove a reason for adverse action and litigation in impounding the income which the American executors remit to the family of the testatrix and annuitants in England.
The accounting executors have been of the opinion, should the court so order, that in the decree to be entered settling these accounts there should be some provision authorizing and directing the ac„„ counting executors to remit to Viscount Duncannon and Thomas Rawle, as general executors of the will ofthe testatrix, the sum of £20,000, or thereabouts, with which to pay such deficit of
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Extracts from Supplemental Account of
Proceedings Verified July 15, 1912.
SCHEDULE C 1.
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Payments from capital for crpcimcs of administration.
June 7, 1912—Voucher No. 1.
Remitted Vise o u n t Duncannon and
Thomas Rawle Trustees, by draft on
London, £20,000 at 4.8720 exchange.. $97,440.00
(Reing amount advanced to meet de-
ficit in English Death Duties on
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HARRY II. HOLLINS,
JOHN L. CADWALADER,
FREDERICK OGDEN REACH,
Executors.
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SCHEDULE H.
Statement of other facts affecting the administration of the Estate.
Since the prior accounting it was found that the premises No. 5 Grosvenor Square, London, were likely to be sold, unless the money was advanced by the American executors to meet the English Death Duties, as set forth in Schedule H of such prior accounting. The American executors, there- 26 fore, made the said payment of £20,000 which is shown in Schedule C 1 of this account, and thereupon an order was duly entered in the suit referred to in such prior account staying the sale of the said residence property.
"In sacred memory of Anne Abbott widow & relict of William Abbott , gent, one co-heir of William Millington, gent, once of Conning. Andrew Luttrell, executor & great grandson erected this monument "
"The proverbs true tis not unknown to any
That death takes best and leaves the worst by many
Her meritts vertue love and everlasting fame
Will still sprout out though death hath cropt her name
And although meagre death struck with deadly stinge
Forever will all angels aleluuia singe
Obit 17 day of October Year of Grace 1610"
Anne was the co-heiress daughter of William Millington of Conning
She lived at Hartland Abbey house -
After the abbey was dissolved in 1539 it was gifted by Henry Vlll to the Sergeant of his Wine Cellar at Hampton Court, William Abbott possibly her father in law
She & husband William Abbott 1540 - 1609 had one heiress daughter
1. Prudence 1639 m 1583 Andrew Luttrell 1560–1625 of Braunton son of Nicholas Luttrell 1523–1592 of Dunster Castle & Joan Sachervelll
Prudence brought Hartland & its Abbey estate to husband Andrew Luttrell and the Abbey remained in that family until 1704 when their heiress Mary Luttrell married Paul Orchard l having a son Paul Orchard ll 1812 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4A8zq99Y72 & daughter Charlotte 1791 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/c4b50T9Lq5 who married Rev Hooper Morrison and inherited the estate on the death of her brother. The estate then passed to her son Rev Thomas Hooper Morrison of Alwington; flic.kr/p/2rj89yv However he never lived in the Abbey & after he died without issue in 1824, the estate passed to Lewis William Buck great-nephew of Paul Orchard II, and grandson of George Buck and Anne Orchard daughter of Paul Orchard l whose descendant change his name to Stucley and were created baronets in 1859. They have retained the estate ever since .
- Church of St Necton ,Hartland Devon
Janice Dennis www.findagrave.com/memorial/151121541/ann-abbott www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=5538
Draft for Summons to George Grimson, Cromer Road, Aylsham, Norfolk for non-payment of Medical services provided by Dr. Richard John Morton to Caroline Grimson wife of George Grimson in 1894, 1895 and 1898. Summoned by Thomas Purdey, Solicitor executor of Dr. Richard John Morton deceased Aylsham, Norfolk, who died 20th October 1902. For up to 4 years after his death payments were still being made and collected by his Solicitors and his wife and recorded. Dated 8th October 1903.
Richard John Morton was born in 1849 the son of Richard Kay, also a Surgeon and Eliza Mary Needham Morton. He married Mary Ann (Marion) Magar 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth. Morton of Aylsham Family Papers.
George Grimson, House Painter, born circa 1847 at Aylsham, Norfolk married Caroline Sutton 6th December 1870 at Marsham. She was the daughter of James Sutton and Sarah Sutton born circa 1849 at Hevingham, Norfolk. The 1911 census shows them living at Cawston Road, Aylsham with Caroline’s Parents.
Church of St Mary,
Monument to Sir Wymond Carye d. 1612; Alabaster and marble; commissioned by his brother Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham and Sir Edward’s son. Sir Henry Carye, Sir Wymond’s executor. East end of north aisle.
The monument is set with fine disregard for the aisle windows, perhaps no surprising since Sir Wymond had demolished the 40ft long chancel. The monument was described by Blomefield: ‘At the east end of the north isle is a stately monument for Sir Wymond Carye, with his effigies of alabaster, and in armour, lying on an altar tomb of marble, his head resting on a pillow, hands joined, and erect; over him is raised a beautiful arch of marble, &c. supported by porphyry pillars of the Corinthian order, and on the summit, the arms of Carye, but so defaced by time, and so high, as not to be well accounted for.’ The inscription under the arch is decorated with coronets on an acanthus crown, damaged on the right, angels heads (that on the left missing), fruit and reminders of death in the pomegranates, skull above crossed bones, spade and shovel around a crown(?) of acanthus and the winged hour glass.
The inscriptions are now difficult to read, but were transcribed by Blomefield: ‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhale Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wym. Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’
No decoration, presumably coats of arms, remain on the tomb chest. Sir Wymond had rented the lordship of the manor from the crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was acquired outright by Sir henry Carye in 1614. Sir Wymond was knighted at Whitehall in 1604 and had married Catherine Jernangen, the widow of Henry Crane of Chilton, Suffolk. They had no children and she made her will, as Dame Catherine Carey of Fleet Farm, Chilton, Suffolk in 1613.
Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Snettesham Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 370-381 http; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 654-56.
Church of St Mary,
Monument to Sir Wymond Carye d. 1612; Alabaster and marble; commissioned by his brother Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham and Sir Edward’s son. Sir Henry Carye, Sir Wymond’s executor. East end of north aisle.
The monument is set with fine disregard for the aisle windows, perhaps no surprising since Sir Wymond had demolished the 40ft long chancel. The monument was described by Blomefield: ‘At the east end of the north isle is a stately monument for Sir Wymond Carye, with his effigies of alabaster, and in armour, lying on an altar tomb of marble, his head resting on a pillow, hands joined, and erect; over him is raised a beautiful arch of marble, &c. supported by porphyry pillars of the Corinthian order, and on the summit, the arms of Carye, but so defaced by time, and so high, as not to be well accounted for.’ The inscription under the arch is decorated with coronets on an acanthus crown, damaged on the right, angels heads (that on the left missing), fruit and reminders of death in the pomegranates, skull above crossed bones, spade and shovel around a crown(?) of acanthus and the winged hour glass.
The inscriptions are now difficult to read, but were transcribed by Blomefield: ‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhale Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wym. Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’
No decoration, presumably coats of arms, remain on the tomb chest. Sir Wymond had rented the lordship of the manor from the crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was acquired outright by Sir henry Carye in 1614. Sir Wymond was knighted at Whitehall in 1604 and had married Catherine Jernangen, the widow of Henry Crane of Chilton, Suffolk. They had no children and she made her will, as Dame Catherine Carey of Fleet Farm, Chilton, Suffolk in 1613.
Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Snettesham Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 370-381 http; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 654-56.
detail of the top of the monument
4th October – 9th December 1902 details of the meetings re the renunciation of Leonard S Parker and James Parker as Trustee of their father Samuel Parker’s Will due to Bankruptcy.
Leonard and James Parker were the son’s of Samuel Parker and Caroline Sparkhall. Along with their mother Caroline and sisters Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker inherited under the Will with Property held in Trust.
The daughter Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
The present Trustees, John Castle Pomeroy and James Brummage Account of the Will of Samuel Parker, Residuary Legatees following death of Caroline Parker, widow of Samuel Parker October 1906. Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. Amounts and the details of money paid to Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker who inherited under the Will.
Daughters Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
The present Trustees, John Castle Pomeroy and James Brummage Account of the Will of Samuel Parker, Residuary Legatees following death of Caroline Parker, widow of Samuel Parker October 1906. Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. Amounts and the details of money paid to Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker who inherited under the Will.
Daughters Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.
Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.
The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.
Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904. List several previous Indentures etc.plus value of any houses and what and what cannot be built on the Land. First 19th & 25th March 1799 redemption of Land Tax by John Garrett.
Amongst many others:
28th August 1866 Indenture between Sir Robert Garrett, George Young, Edward Newman, Robert Beckford Johnstone, John Francis Bontenis.
7th July 1876 John Frederick Clark died. His wife Mary Ann Clark and son-in-law Birches Frost Wills are named as Executors and Trustees
2nd December 1878 Agreement between John Frederick Clark and Jennings Butler for £100.
28th December 1896 Jennings Butler died and by his Will of 1895 Thomas Newman, Alfred Thomas Brewer and his Niece Isabella Butler Long made Trustees and Executors of his Will.
5th March 1898 Isabella Butler Long died.
15th September 1902 Indenture of Mortgage between Mary Ann Clark, Widow of Ramsgate, Birches Frost Wills, Carpenter, Ramsgate, Sarah Kingdom Klug of 112 Clifton Hill, St Johns Wood, London, Widow.
John Frederick Clark born circa 1821 at Ramsgate was a Carpenter/Builder. He married twice: Elizabeth Hooper Moses 30th June 1844 at Ramsgate and Mary Ann Bobey 23rd October 1871 at St. Lawrence, Kent.
Wall memorial: "In memoriam John Gillies Shields JP 1857- 1943
Patron of this living; The organ of this church was rebuilt and enlarged by the executors of his estate and the directors of Breedon and Cloud Hill Lime Works , and two new bells were added, one given by O... Brewery, and one by Breedon and District Nursing Association. One bell was recast and the whole peal of six hung on ball bearings, the cost being met by public subscription in the year 1959
CM K Parsons, Vicar; F Wakefield; W Smith Churchwardens" - Church of St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
Flora court (5, Wiedner Mainstreet 88, Hartmann alley 1), secessionist rental house, built in 1901/1902 by Oskar Laske (student of Otto Wagner and Karl König, from 1907 exclusively painter and graphic artist), Viktor Fiala and builder J. Barak as executors after a draft of Wunibald Deininger. The remarkable building shows (as one of the few rental houses of Vienna) in its brittle outline the tendencies of the Viennese Secessionism around 1900 in the follow-up period after Otto Wagner, the original (partly coloured) decor, unlike the floral-curvilinear trends of Western modernism, always serving to emphasize the tectonics of the structure (see also Villa Vojcsik by Otto Schönthal).
Florahof (5, Wiedner Hauptstraße 88, Hartmanngasse 1), secessionistisches Miethaus, erbaut 1901/1902 von Oskar Laske (Schüler Otto Wagners und Karl Königs, ab 1907 ausschließlich Maler und Graphiker), Viktor Fiala und Baumeister J. Barak als Ausführende nach einem Entwurf von Wunibald Deininger. Der bemerkenswerte Bau zeigt (als eines der wenigen Miethäuser Wiens) in seiner spröden Gliederung die Tendenzen des Wiener Secessionismus um 1900 im Anschluss an Otto Wagner, wobei der originelle (teils färbige) Dekor, im Gegensatz zu den floral-kurvilinearen Tendenzen des westlichen Jugendstils, stets zur Betonung der Tektonik der Gliederung dient (vergleiche Villa Vojcsik von Otto Schönthal).
Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.
This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.
Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation