Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Lieutenant General

First Name:

William

Last Name:

Davenant

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1668

Inscription:

O RARE S. WILLIAM DAVENANT

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

From photograph, small white gravestone is now rather cracked. See:https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20605/william-d'avenant

Memorial Notes:

Buried in the grave from which his Roundhead rival Thomas May had been ejected at the Restoration.
See: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/sir-william-davenant
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7197