Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Carnaby

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

No

Installation Date:

post 1665

Inscription:

From: Skaife, Robert H. 1870 The Register of Burials in York Minster...", The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal Vol. I, 1870

Blue stone, inscribed:
Here lieth the Body of Sir Thomas Carnaby, Knight and Colonel, who served his King and Country in the Time of King Charles I. and King Charles II. valiantly and faithfully. He died at the Age Of 46, the 20th Day of September, Anno Domini, 1665. Veni Domine Jesu."

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition Description:

unknown, presumed lost

Memorial Notes:

Sir Thomas Carnaby, was killed by Richard Harland in an affray in Blake Street, York, 20 September 1665 and was buried two days later.

See: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ARY/York/BurialsYorkMinster/YorkMinsterBurials1a

&

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ARY/York/BurialsYorkMinster/YorkMinsterBurials1b

for reference to his widow Lady Elenor Carnaby, buried 8th of February, 1689.