Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway

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Reference WMO/288545

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Holy Trinity Church

A422

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Alcester

B49 5PP

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Seven Years War (1756-1763)
About the memorial: Large brass plaque, portrait wall mounted, incised with red cross top centre, eagle motiff in round window, top left centre, and side silhouette of a lady to right. The border surrounding the text panel is highly decorative grape vines and small crosses. This is one of those memorials which are on the cusp of a war memorial and a family memorial, as he died peacefully aged 75. But he saw active service in the Seven Years War
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TO THE / MEMORY / OF / FIELD MARSHALL / RT HONBL HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY / P.C. M.P. / 2ND SON OF FRANCIS 1ST LORD CONWAY / ONLY BROTHER OF 1ST MARQUIS OF HERTFORD / BORN 1720 / HE SERVED IN SEVEN YEARS WAR & COMMANDED / WITH HIGH REPUTATION / THE BRITISH FORCES IN / GERMANY IN 1761 / HE WAS IN HOUSEHOLD OF GEORGE THIRD WAS / SECRETARY OF STATE FROM 1765 TO 1768 / AND IN 1782 WAS APPOINTED COMMANDER / OF THE FORCES. / HE MARRIED CAROLINE WIDOW OF EARL OF / AILESBURY IN 1747 BY WHOM HE HAD AN / ONLY DAUGHTER ANNE MARRIED TO JOHN / ELDEST SON OF J DAMER EARL OF DORCHESTER. / HE DIED 9TH JULY 1795 AND WAS BURIED / IN THE VAULT BENEATH THIS CHURCH. / THIS TABLET IS INSRCIBED OUT OF RESPECT / TO HIS MEMORY BY / FRANCIS / M.G. / 5TH MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.

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