Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Matthew

Last Name:

Appleyard

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

c.1670

Inscription:

Obscured by church organ:
...S DEATH WAS A MEMBER OF THE HONBLE HOWSE OF/COMMONS OF ENGLAND FOR THE CORPORATION/OF HEADON AND ONE OF HIS MAJTIES CUSTOMERS FOR...
...1669 IN THE LXIII YEAR OF HIS AGE BEING/A WORTHY FAVOURITE AND ASSERTER OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND KINGDOM...

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Redundant Church. Not inspected but see in incomplete photographs

Memorial Notes:

See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/249085902/matthew-appleyard
See: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Andrew J. Hopper 2008 , https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/597