Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Major

First Name:

Richard

Last Name:

Salwey

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1760 or later

Inscription:

In Memory of
THEOPHILUS SALWEY ESQR
who was the eldest Son of EDWARD SALWEY ESQR
a Younger Son of Major RICHARD SALWEY
who in the last Century
sacrifiz’d all and every thing in his Power
in Suppport of publick Liberty and in Opposition to Arbitrary Power
the said THEOPHILUS SALWEY married
MARY the Daughter and Heiress of
ROBERT DENNET of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Esqr.
but left no Issue by her.
Obiit the 28th. of April 1760 Aetat, 61
Pro Rege Saepe Pro Republica Semper

Allegiance:

Parliamentarian

Condition:

Very Good

Condition Description:

Observed July 2023

Memorial Notes:

See:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/cromwell-army-officers/surnames-s
Salway [Salwey], [Richard] [Richard] Salway [Salwey].
Major in Colonel Richard Turner’s regiment of London horse. He is probably Richard Salwey, in which case he was born 1615 at Stanford-on-Teme in Worcestershire, in 1641 he married Ann, daughter of Richard Waring, at which time he was described as a citizen and grocer of St Leonard’s in Eastcheap, from Oct. 1645 was MP for Appleby and in June 1646 may have been present at or involved in the siege of Worcester; although frequently under suspicion, he escaped punishment at the Restoration and died in 1686.
References: TNA, SP28/132, Part 2, f. 1v.; Oxford DNB; HoP: The Commons, 1640-1660.
Armies: London

Sutton, Paul 2023 The City Horse: London’s Militia Cavalry during the English Civil War, 1642-1660. Century of the Soldier Series No. 103. Warwick, Helion & Company Limited, pp.278-80