Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

William

Last Name:

Carlos (formerly Careless)

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1689

Inscription:

Stone grave marker:
Near here lieth
the remains of
Col William Carless
whom the King(?) did call

& Modern tablet inside church

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF
COLONEL WILLIAM CARLOS
SECOND SON OF JOHN CARELESS OF BROOMHALL
IN THIS PARISH GOvERNOR OF TONGE CASTLE
1645 BURIED IN THIS CHURCHYARD 1689
HE NOT ONLY ASSISTED KING CHARLES I OF EVER BLESSED MEMORY BUT WAS ALSO THE
CHIEF PRESERVER OF HIS SON KING CHARLES II
IN THE ROYAL OAK AT BOSCOBEL

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Based on photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

See: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4690

See also:
memorial plaque installed in 2013 to William Careless (as William Carlos) attached to the base of a statue of Charles II, by Grinling Gibbons, in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Careless and Charles II with the Royal Oak on a sign at the Royal Oak Pub, Corsley Heath