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Taplow Monumental Inscriptions

More information about the significance of Taplow to the Grenfell family can be found Parish page.

Inscription reads:
THE VAULT BENEATH THIS MONUMENT WAS BUILT

IN THE YEAR 1818 AS A PLACE OF BURIAL FOR HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY
PASCOE GRENFELL ESQ OF TAPLOW HOUSE IN THIS PARISH, ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BOROUGH OF GREAT MARLOW IN THIS COUNTY IN FIVE SUCCESSIVE PARLIAMENTS VIZ 1802 TO 1820

Louisa Octavia Grenfell d. 20 Feb 1816
Hon. Georgina Grenfell b. 1 April 1777 d. 19 May 1818
Margaret Grenfell b. 15 Dec 1806 d. 22 July 1820
Georgiana Frances Isabella Grenfell d. 10 January 1827 aged 8 months
Lady Georgiana Isabella Frances Grenfell 27 June 1827 aged 33 years
Charlotte Adelaide Grenfell b. 11 July 1813 d. 10 December 1840
Pascoe Grenfell d. 23 January 1838 in his 77th year
Herbert Pascoe Grenfell b. 29 July 1838 d. 30 july 1839
Charlotte Granville French d. 27 March 1845 aged 57 years
Catherine Ann Grenfell 24 Jan 1845
Charlotte Theodosia, Baroness Riversdale 18 May 1853
George Granville Grenfell 3 June 1853 aged 64
Charles William d. 4 May 1861 aged 38 years
Frederick Paget 4 January 1866 aged 58 years
Charles Pascoe Grenfell b. 13 April 1790 d. 21 March 1867
Penelope Frances Grenfell b. 21 April 1802 d. 8 January 1868
Riversdale William Grenfell b. 27 Nov 1807 d. 1 June 1871
Georgina Mary Grenfell b. 17 Feb 1800 d. 19 August 1874
Pascoe St Leger Grenfell b. 5 Nov 1798 d. 28 March 1879
Maria Georgiana Paget d. 27 Sept. 1900 in her 81 year
Georgiana Caroline Grenfell b. 5 February 1826 d. 2 February 1911
Ivor George Winfred Grenfell b. 5 Sep 1898 d. 8 Oct 1926
William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough, KG. KCVO born 30 October 1855 died 9 January 1945
Ethel Anne Priscilla Desborough b. 27 June 1867 d. 28 May 1952
Monica Margaret Salmond d. 17th June 1973

Source: Parish Register, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England and Family Information from Penny Watts-Russell.

Taplow Grenfell Memorial

This is a stone monument to the Grenfell family who lived at Taplow Court. The carving is of an image of Apollo behind his chariot. There is also a bronze panel at the back of the monument with a poem by Julian Grenfell

Julian and Gerald Grenfell gravestone

In memory of the happy lives of Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO, Captain Royal Dragoons, died of wounds at Boulogne May 26th 1915 aged 27 and of Gerald William Grenfell, Second Lieutenant Rifle Brigade, killed leading a charge near Hooge July 30th 1915, aged 25.

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