Memorial to Sir Thomas Legh, 1727.

Memorial to Sir Thomas Legh, 1727.

Location

On the overcrowded walls of Bath Abbey.

Description

A memorial elaborately sculpted in stone, to Calveley LEGH who died in 1727.

Inscription

Near this Place lyeth the Body of
CALVELEY LEGH M:D:
(Fellow of all Souls College Oxõn.
He was the 4th Son of Richard LEGH of Lyme
in the County Palatine of Cheshire Esq
by Elizabeth his wife eldest Daughter
of Sr Thomas CHICHELEY Kt Privy Purse
to King Charles the 1st. Privy Counceller,
Master of the Ordinance, & Chancellor of the
Dutchy of Lancashire in the Reign of
King Charles the 2d.)
Who departed this life
the 25th day of April, Anñ:Dom:1727.
Ætatisq Suæ 45.

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