In complete contrast to Day 3’s theme of overgrown, today’s memorial is tidy, in every respect of the word! So, not overgrown, not dirty, not broken, but bright and shiny! A fancy typeface, and the use of Roman numerals add to the charm. The use of different materials for the base plinth, the inscription area, and the obelisk also add character. I think (but I could be wrong) that three of the four sides bore an inscription, each to a different person – Thomas Bennett, Henry Brackenbury Bennett, and Harriet Cooper Mawe.
Thomas was a chemist and druggist on Loughborough’s High Street, next door to the Palmer family of doctors. Thomas had married Mary Hannah Needham in Loughborough in 1832, and was the father of Henry Brackenbury Bennett (1836-1864). The Brackenbury part of the name seems to come from a family based at Raithby Hall, Lincolnshire, although I haven’t quite worked out the connection yet, except that Mrs Brackenbury died in 1845, and left money to her sister, who was Harriett Cooper Mawe.
Interestingly, the ‘Leicester Guardian’ of 11 November 1865 carried an article about the Loughborough Burial Board, which is worth quoting here in full:
“BURIAL BOARD – A meeting of the Burial Board for the parish of Loughborough was held at the Cemetery on Tuesday 7th inst. [of this month]. Present, Messrs. E. C. Middleton, G. Wragg, and J. Foulds. An extract from the minutes of a meeting of the select vestry held on the 24th day of October last having been read, stating that Messrs. Jno. Clarke, Jos. Foulds, and Thos. Pickworth were the retiring members from the board this year, it was unanimously resolved that they be re-elected, it was resolved that E. C. Middleton, Esq., be chairman, and G. C. Wragg, Esq., vice-chairman of the Board for the ensuing year.
A cheque was signed for £10 4s. 10d. to pay Milner for five weeks’ wages, £5; for digging 25 graves, £2 16s. 3d.; Fidler, for mowing grass, £2 5s.; and land tax, 3s. 7½d.
A drawing of an obelisk with copy of the inscription, in memory of Mrs Harriet Cooper Mawe, and Henry Brackenbury Bennett, was approved.”
And this is what
it looks like today!
I'll leave you, the reader, to wrestle with the Roman numerals!
I wonder what memorials tomorrow will bring?!Thank you for following the blog!
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