Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Faithful

Last Name:

Fortescue

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1866

Inscription:

Taken from https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/40714 © WMR-40714

Brass plaque

IN MEMORY OF COLONEL SIR FAITHFUL FORTESCUE, KNIGHT, SON OF JOHN FORTESCUE, ESQRE OF BUCKLAND FILLEIGH IN DEVON BY SUSANNAH DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN CHICHESTER OF RALEIGH - HE WAS A DISTINGUISHED ROYALIST OFFICER AND FOUGHT IN SEVERAL BATTLES OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR. AT THE RESTORATION HE BECAME A GENTLEMAN OF THE PRIVY CHAMBER TO KING CHARLES THE SECOND./ HAVING LEFT LONDON TO AVOID THE CONTAGION OF THE PLAGUE HE RETIRED SOON AFTERWARDS BEING THEN OF A GREAT AGE DIED AT THE MANOR OF BOWCOMBE IN THIS PARISH AND WAS BURIED WITHIN THESE PRECINCTS ON THE XXIX DAY OF MAY MDCLXVI THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY HIS ELDEST MALE REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS (FORTESCUE) LORD CLERMONT A.D. 1866

See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9940

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Unseen

Memorial Notes:

See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9940