Title:

Baron/Lord

First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Coventry

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1760s?

Inscription:

Translation from the Latin inscription

to the Best and Greatest God
Here lies
Thomas Lord Coventry, Baron Coventry of Allesborough
Heir and Upholder of his father's name, works and virtues
Of unshakeable faith in God, King and country,
Of tranquil mind in both good times and bad,
An eminent man of culture,
To his children a most careful father,
To his dependants a just and generous Lord
Kind to the poor
Too all men just
In all things blameless.
Here he was placed in the tomb of his ancestors.
Next to his beloved wife, the sister of the illustrious William Lord Craven
In the 55th year of his life
and in the year of Christ 1661

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Based on photographs

Memorial Notes:

Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron Coventry (1606 – 27 October 1661) Joint Commissioner of Array in Worcestershire in 1642, and signed the Engagement with the King at York. In 1642 he defended Worcester against the Parliamentary army, but was defeated by Colonel Sandys? He submitted to Parliament in October 1642, and in May 1643 was given permission to go abroad on health grounds. He was back in England the following year. On 15 January 1644, the East India Company were ordered to freeze the money and goods he had in the Company. On 15 April, he was assessed at £3,000 and on 20 September he was assessed at £1,500 by the House of Lords. On 11 April 1645 all his goods and chattels in his house at Westminster were to be seized, inventoried and sold in order to pay off the fine of £1,500. He was suspected of having Royalist sympathies in 1651, and of supporting Charles II. He was cleared of the charges, but was imprisoned for a time in 1655. (see https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/coventry-thomas-1606-1661)