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Church of St Mary the Virgin

A Grade I Listed Building in Dodford, West Northamptonshire

St Mary: memorial to Henry Benson, d.1725, wife Elizabeth (nee Grey) & two daughters

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Here lyes interr'd Henry Benson Esq. Lord of this Manor. He married the Honourable Elizabeth Grey sister to Thomas Earl of Stamford, by whom he had two daughters, & dyed the Fourteenth day of November 1725 aged 73.

Elizabeth Christiana Benson, the eldest, dyed unmarried the fourteenth day of March 1730 aged 55 & by her will ordered this monument to be erected in memory of herself & father.

Jane Grey Benson, the youngest, married Lucy Knightley of Fawsley in ye county of Northampton Esq. by whom she had two sons & four daughters & dyed the third day of December 1731 aged 46.

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on 29 May 2023

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