11. St Mary’s Church is rich in monuments, many of which are in memory of the FitzRoy family: a selection of monuments to the FitzRoys and others are shown here.
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a. Charlotte Maria, Countess of Euston, buried in St Mary’s Church, February 8th 1808. An elegant monument by John Flaxman of white marble flanked by the figures of Faith and Hope.
b. Lord James Henry FitzRoy, Charlotte Maria’s third surviving son, d. 26 July 1834. A tablet with draped urn by William Behnes.
c. A small slab, barely legible, in the chancel records the brief life of Edward Hodges:
d. Also in the chancel on the north wall, a brass plate in memory of Charles Dawson Sams, son of Barwick John Sams, who was lost at sea in the Pescadores.
e. On the north wall of the north aisle, a monument in memory of Lady Mary FitzRoy, d. 7 December 1847, and her son, Captain Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, who died during the Crimean War on 10 September 1855.
f. Also in the north aisle, monuments to:
George Henry Fitz-Roy, d. 8 July 1865
at Nagasaki and Arthur George Fitz-Roy,
d. 9 January 1861 at Sierra Leone.
g. Sir Charles Augustus Fitz-Roy, who was Governor-General of the Australian Colonies, d. 16 February 1858.
h. Lord Charles FitzRoy, who saw much action in the army before becoming a parliamentarian where his memorial records that he was “A STEADY LIBERAL IN POLITICS”, d. 17 June 1865.
A memorial in the north aisle commemorates those from Grafton Regis who served in the Great War, 1914 to 1918
