Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

not known

First Name:

Edward

Last Name:

Spencer

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1656

Inscription:

EDOARDVS SPENCER
EQUES AURAT. 9 ROBTI BARONET
SPENCER DE WORMLEITON
NATU MINIMUS
HIC JACET.
OBIJT SINE PROLE DIE XJ0. FEBRI
ANO DNI, 1655, AETAT.61

Edward Spencer
A GOLDEN KNIGHT. 9 ROBERT BARONET
SPENCER OF WORMLEITON
LITTLE BORN
HERE LIES.
DIED WITHOUT CHILDREN 11 DAY OF FEBRUARY
IN THE YEAR OF ANNO DOMINI, 1655, AGED 61

Inscription transcribed from a photograph.

Allegiance:

Neutral

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

White marble memorial of Sir Edward Spencer depicted three quarter length in cuirassier three quarter armour. By sculptor John Stone, whose notes record:

"1 In Ano. 1656, I sett up aTombe for Sir Edward Spencer att Brainton neare
Althrop in Northamptonshire for wch I had 64".

A monument of unusual, and not very attractive, design, executed in veined white
marble, and standing in the Spencer Chapel. The monument is allegorical in conception, and its form was doubtless dictated by the donor. The half-length figure of Sir Edward is presumably rising out of the urn of the resurrection, he wears the breastplate of righteousness, his right arm rests on a four-square pillar the Word of God and his left hand on the Bible, standing on the pillar of truth.

As referenced in: Finberg, A.J. (ed) The Walpole Society, Seventh Volume, Oxford University Press, 1919
https://archive.org/stream/volumeofwalpoles07walpuoft/volumeofwalpoles07walpuoft_djvu.txt

Spencer described as: "...named to the commission of array, he remained neutral in the Civil War. He was returned for Middlesex as a recruiter in 1648, but secluded at Pride’s Purge..."
in https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/spencer-edward-1595-1656