Title:

Knight

First Name:

Michael

Last Name:

Warton

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

c.1688/90s

Inscription:

Here Lyeth the body of Michael Warton of Beverley in the county of Yorke who was the eldest son of Sir Michael Warton and grandson and heir to Sir Michael Warton of Beverley Parke Kt. He married the honourable Susanna Poulet daughter to the Right Honourable John Lord Poulet Baron of St Hinton St George by whom he had four sons and three daughters Michael, John Ralph and Charles, Elizabeth, Susanna and Mary. He was baptised 27th Day of April 1623 and died at London 9th August 1688 in the 65th year of his age.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Sir Michael Warton's grandfather had been at the York Muster of 1642 and his father, Michael Warton, was killed at the siege of Scarborough Castle in 1645. Wharton himself had been in arms for the King at the battle of Marston Moor (see http://www.whartonfamilyhistory.co.uk/showmedia.php?mediaID=1151&medialinkID=658 and http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/warton-michael-1623-88).

Pair of early portraits of him and his wife, his wife Susanna daughter of John first Lord Poulett, said to be by John Hayls, recently in an auction in the USA They are inscribed: “Michael Warton Esq Son in law of John first Lord Poulett Hales Pint”, and “Susanna daughter of John first Lord Poulett and Wife of Michael Warton Esq of Beverly in Yorkshire Hales Pint”.(see: https://rfjblog.wordpress.com/tag/john-hayls/)

Later(?) portrait of him in armour is in NT Ormesby Hall (http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/709300) as he was either the grandfather or father of Mary Warton, who was the wife of the 3rd Baronet, Sir James Pennyman of Ormesby, married in 1692.