Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

Countess of Huntingdon Church, Brighton

Inscription:

The Rt Hon. Lady Frances Hastings, 3rd daughter of Theophilus, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Frances, his 2nd wife (daughter of Francis Fowler Levison, of Harnage Grangem Shrops., adopted heir to his uncle, Sir Richard Levison of Titelham, Staffs, maternal granddaughter of Peter, Baron Kinderton, of Cheshire,) b. 9(?) January 1695, d. 25 January 1760, aged 56 years, 15 days.

Monument details:

Type: Brass.

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Hastings.

First Name(s): Frances.

Birth date: 09 Jan 1695.

Death date: 25 Jan 1760.

Age: 56.

Comments:

Nave - north wall. A lozenge-shaped brass with foliated edges. Brought here from Spa Fields Chapel, London. Note: the name of her maternal grandfather is stated incorrectly, it should be Francis Leveson Fowler (G.E. Cockeyne's Complete Peerage, 1926)

Sussex Archaeological Collections, #109, 1971

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

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