Tomb inscription · 1849
Elizabeth Farrington
- Date
- 10 November 1849
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2273
- Inscription
- Elizabeth, daughter of the late Sir Henry M. Farrington, Bart., aged 32 years.
- Notes
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Maturin Farrington, third baronet, was four times married. The lady here buried was the child of his third wife. The sixth baronet Henry Anthony, born 1st October 1871, was an Assistant Conservator of Forests in Bengal. He joined service on 29th Nov. 1894. Retired as Chief Conservator, Central Provinces, in Oct. 1926. He married in 1906 Dorothy, daughter of Frank Farrington, Esq. Charles Henry Farrington, grandson of the first Baronet Sir Anthony Farrington, was the second Baronet (born 26 September 1794, died in India unmarried 26 March 1828). He was in the 31st Regiment. He died of consumption on his way to Landour (near Dehra Dun) where Captain G.C. Mundy, A.D.C., saw his newly made grave April 1828. ‘In this romantic spot surrounded by trees and overhung with black rocks a monument is to be erected to his memory,’ page 91 of his Journal of a Tour in India (John Murray 1858). He was succeeded by his uncle Henry Maturin who married first 6th September 1802 Clarissa Claringbole, no issue; 2ndly 5th October 1805 Laura Maria, daughter of Charles Bromley of Madras (who died 15th December 1808), by whom he had a daughter Laura Elizabeth who married 22 February 1832 Rev. Thomas Edward Allen (who died a chaplain in the Bengal service 28 March 1841); 3rdly on 18th July 1810 Jane, daughter of Roger Curry, who died 8 October 1828; 4thly 6th February 1834 Susanna, daughter of Robert Kekewich, and he died 4 October in that year.