Internal Monuments and Memorials Index

Inscriptions and photographs for monuments HFHS nos. (1) – (26). Added recent additions nos. (27) and (28). Added two stained glass windows (29) and (30) and Hatchments (31) - (35).

(1) WT {coat of arms}, IS / S, CW, MA. They were / lovely and pleasant / in their lives, and in / their death they were / not divided. / 11 Samuel Ch. 1 Ver. 23 / Audactor et sincere / To the memory of / EDWARD BOLTON CLIVE Esqre / of Whitfield / eldest son of GEORGE CLIVE Esqre / and of SIDNEY BOLTON CLIVE / of the County of Louth his wife / He was born September 4th 1766 / married December 1790 / HARRIET daughter and coheir of / ANDREW Lord Archer / and died July 22nd 1845, / leaving three surviving children, viz / HARRIET MARIA / wife of Archdeacon WETHERELL / ARCHER / Rector of Solihull County of Warwick / and GEORGE a Barrister at law / he represented the City of Hereford / from the year 1826 until his death / he was honest and consistent / in his public conduct / just, friendly, and hospitable / as a neighbour / most kind and loving as a parent / and of rare sincerity with all / Audactor et sincere / To the memory of / Colonel EDWARD CLIVE / eldest son of / Edward Bolton CLIVE Esqre / and the Honble HARRIET ARCHER his wife / he was born November 14th 1793, / entered the army / as Ensign in the Grenadier Guards / July 4th 1811, / and died / in command of the same regiment / April 14th 1845 aged 51 years / and unmarried / he served in Spain and France / and at Waterloo / and commanded the 2nd Battalion / in Canada / the numerous friends / officers and soldiers / who attended his funeral / testified the love and respect / in which they held him / and the deep grief of his father / bore witness to his virtues / as a son.

(2) WT {coat of arms & knights helmet}, IS/S, M, Slate.

Audacter et sincere / In memory of / MEYSEY GEORGE / DALLAS CLIVE / of Whitfield, / born April 25th 1907 / killed in action in Tunisia / May 1st 1943. / How can man die better.

(3) WT {Gryphon}, IS/S, M, possibly limestone.

In memory of / ROBERT HENRY CLIVE / P.C., G.C.M.G. / born / XXVII [27] Dec.

MDCCCLXXVII [1877] / died / XIII [13] May MCMXLVIII [1948].

(4) WT {coat of arms. sword & scales, urn}, IS/S, CW, MA.

Sacred to the memory of / Sir EDWARD CLIVE, Knt. / who was many years one of His Majesty's / Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, / in which public capacity he ever discovered / that clear and comprehensive judgement / so necessary for the proper discharge / of his important office, happily

uniting / the character of an impartial Judge to / that humane and benevolent disposition / which distinguished ever action of his private life / In his decline, which was gradual, / he possessed that piece [sic] of mind / which arises from the review of an upright conduct / and from the Christians hope of a joyful ressurection [sic] / he died the 21st of April 1771 / aged 67 years.

(5) C {flowers. foliage & cross}, IS/S, M/LL, MA.

She being dead / yet speaketh / To die the first i [sic] sent my prayer on high / now i send thanks my dear ones live i die / In memory of CAROLINE, the beloved wife of the Revd Archer CLIVE / daughter & coheir of EDMUND MEYSEY WIGLEY, Esq. of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire / born June

30th 1801, died July 13th 1873 / She bore her cross and followed him / Also of Revd ARCHER CLIVE, husband of the above, son of EDWARD BOLTON CLIVE & HARRIET daughter of ANDREW last Lord Archer / Rector of Solihull in the County of Warwick from 1829 to 1848, & owner of Whitfield from 1846 to 1878, born March 16th 1800, died Sept. 17th 1878 / his loss is deeply regretted by those whom he assisted in the discharge of public business & by all classes in this neighbourhood, / who loved him and, respected the influence of his character & amongst whom he lived & died.

(6) WT {foliage, campaign medals & gryphon}, IS/S, CW, MA.

Audacter et sincere / To the Glory of God / and / in proud and loving memory of / Lt Col PERCY ARCHER CLIVE, M. P. / of Whitfield / eldest son of Mr MEYSEY & Lady / KATHERINE CLIVE, born 1873 & educated at Eton / & Sandhurst. Entered the Grenadier Guards / 1891 & saw active service with the Niger Field / Force 1898. Served in the South African Cam / paign 1899-1901 with the

3rd Batln. Entering / Pretoria on its capture by Field Marshall Lord / ROBERTS. He received the Queens medal & 5 clasps / he was while serving in South Africa returned / as member of parliament for the Ross division of / Herefordshire & retained the trust & confidence / of all parties until his death. He retired in / 1906, but rejoined the colours on the declaration / of War with Germany in Aug 1914 & served / with the 2nd Batln Grenadier Guards in Flanders / & France. For especially gallant conduct during / that winter campaign he received from the / French Government the decoration of Chevalier / of the Legion of Honour with the Croix de Guerre, / wounded in August 1915, he was on recovery / promoted Lt Col & whilst commanding the 7th / Batln East Yorks Regt on the Somme was in / Nov 1916, again severely wounded. After a period / on the staff he was given command of the 5th / Lancs Fusrs & was on the 5th April 1918 killed at / the village of Bucquoy in Picardy whilst / gallantly striving to rescue a wounded officer / In 1905 he married ALICE MURIEL, daughter of / Lieut Col G.F. DALLAS. He leaves her & his children / JUDITH. MEYSEY, LEWIS, VIRGINIA and

CAROLINE, / to deplore his untimely death / More brave for this that he had much to love.

(7) Within altar window.

Placed to the memory / a loving father and mother / ARCHER & CAROLINE CLIVE / by MEYSEY and / KATHERINE CLIVE and ALICE / GREATHED. 1880.

(8) Wall Plaque {Adoration of Christ, Pilasters}. IS/S, CW, MA.

In . loving . memory . of . WILFRED . MEYSEY . CLIVE. H.M’s . Diplomatic . Service . second . son . of . MEYSEY . and . Lady . KATHERINE . CLIVE . born . August . 22nd . 1874 . died . December . 10th . 1901 . He was / suffocated . at . the . boiling . lake . in . the . island . of . Dominica . West . Indies

. while . trying . to . save . his . guide . Blessed . are . the . pure . in . heart . for . they . shall . see . God.

(9) WT {urn}, IS/S, CW, MA.

To the memory of / JUDITH Lady CLIVE / relict of E. EDW. CLIVE K., and daughter of / The Rev. BENJAMIN CLIVE / she died 20 of August 1796 / in the 66 year of her age.

(l0) WT {columns}, IS/S, CW, MA.

Here rest the mortal remains / of The Honourable HARRIET CLIVE, the well beloved wife / of EDWARD BOLTON CLIVE, Esquire / and daughter and co-heiress of ANDREW Lord Archer, / Baron of Umberslade, in the Count y of Wanwick / she was born November XXV, MDCCLXIX [25,

1769] / was married December V, MDCCXC [5, 1790] and (after a short and sudden illness) / she expired June XXII, MDCCCXVI [1816], leaving behind her / a mournful husband, / to ruminate in silence on the social virtues of her heart, / and the delightful intelligence of her mind. and to derive his best and / dearest consolation from the glorious hope of meeting her hereafter / in the presence of God,

/ and in the eternal mansions prepared for those / who love, and strive to do his will, / Also / three sons and one daughter / to trace, in tender recollection, the course of that / affectionate solicitude, and judicious care / which led them from infancy to the borders of maturity / with an attention so nicely balanced between conscientious duty / which most prevailed, / and lastly, / a greatful [sic] neighbourhood / to bless her memory and to bewail their own irepairable [sic] loss / for she was bountyful [sic] beyond the fashion of this world / and delighted most to lend the helping hand in secret / where none but God could see, / She was not weary in well doing / but possessed a soul indelibly impressed with this eternal truth / It is more blessed to give than to receive.

(11) WT, IS/S, CW, MA.

In / loving memory of / ALICE / only daughter of / The Rev. ARCHER CLIVE, / and widow of / Maj. Genl. W.W.H. GREATHED, / C.B. / born 1843, died Dec. 26th 1915.

(12) WT {coat of arms}, IS/S, M, MA.

Audacter et sincere / In memory of / LEWIS CLIVE / born September 8th 1910 / killed at the battle of the Ebro / August 4th 1938 / fighting with / the Spanish Republican Forces.

(13) WT {portrait bust}, IS/S, CW, MA.

CHARLES MEYSEY BOLTON CLIVE, / of Whitfield / born January 30th 1842 / died at Winnipeg Canada / August 11th 1883 / This monument is erected to his memory / by his loving children and sister / Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall / be comforted / Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst / after righteousness; for they shall be filled / Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall / see God.

(14) WT {portrait bust}, IS/S, CW, MA.

Lady KATHERINE CLIVE / greatly gifted, and greatly loved, / born December 16th 1842: died July 10th 1882 / This monument was raised to her memory, / by her sorrowing husband, / CHARLES MEYSEY BOLTON CLIVE / who died August 11th 1883: aged 41 / Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, / whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are lovely, / whatsoever

things are of good report, if their [sic] be any virtue, / and if there be any praise, think on these things / Phil, iv. C. -8. v.

(15) Bible on lectern.

GEO. GRIFFITHS / given to Wormbridge / church / by his daughter / ELEANOR M. BALL.

(16) WT, IS/S, M, polished G.

In memory of / ALICE MAUD PEARCE / 1866-1945 / For 40 years / beloved friend and nurse / to the CLIVE FAMILY / of Whitfield.

(17) WT, IS/S, M, MA.

Sacred to the memory of / JAMES PREECE, / head Mason on the Whitfield estate / who died June 10th 1900, / aged 67 years / This tablet is erected by Captain PERCY ARCHER CLIVE, / in remembrance of 50 years of faithful service / to him and to his family / not with eye service as men pleasers, but in / singleness of heart, fearing God.

(18) WT, IS/S, ??, unidentifiable material.

In memory of ELIZABETH / the wife of Arnold PHILPOTS / who died Febry the 4th / 1741 aged 37 / Also ARNOLD PHILPOTS he / died March the 30th / 1742 aged 39.

(19) Memorial within window.

Crcl hanc parochialem / ie Wormbridge tetustate / et incuria labantem, / restituit ARCHER CLIVE / patronus A.D. MDCCCL [1850].

(20) FL {coat of arms}, IS, worn, G.

Here lieth the body of / ELIZABETH CLIVE eldest daughter / of RICHARD SYMONS of the Meend / Esqr, and wife of the Honourable / Mr JUSTICE CLIVE of Wormbridge / she died May the 10th, 1762 / aged 54 yrs.

(21) FL {foliage, scrollwork & stars}, IS, worn, G.

Here lieth the body of / SARAH CLIVE daughter of GEORGE CLIVE Esqr & MARY his / wife of Wormbridge she / died October y 2 / 1760 aged 84. Neer [sic] here lieth the body of Mrs JUDITH CLIVE sister to Mrs / SARAH CLIVE of Wormbridge / who died Octor the 22d [sic] / 1763 aged 88 yr.

(22) FL {coat of arms}, IS, worn, G.

Here lieth the bodies of / GEORGE CLIVE of Wormbridge / Esqr and MARY his wife / daughter and heiress of MARTIN / HUSBANDS of Wormbridge Esqr / as also the bodies of / EDWARD / CLIVE Esqr of Wormbridge / third son of the said George / and Mary who died the 13th / of June 1754 aged 73 / And of SARAH his wife who / died the 14th of October / 1737 aged 64.

(23) FL {coat of arms}, IS/worn, MD, G.

Here lieth the body of / [PE?]NELOPE CLIVE daughter of / WILLIAM SCUDAMORE of /

Kentchurch in the County of / Hereford Esqr. and PENELOPE / his wife and wife of LEWIS [....?] / Gent son of EDWARD CLIVE / of Wormbridge in the / County of Hereford Esqr she / died July the 10th 17[..?] / Also the body of SARAH / daughter of the said LEWIS [....?] / PENELOPE who died / an infant.

(24) FL, IS/worn, MD, G.

Here lieth the body of [....?]IS / CLIVE of Howton Grove [....?] / third son of EDWARD CLIVE of / Wormbridge Esqr deceased / died November the 14th 1753 / aged 47 years.

(25) FL, IS/worn, MD, G.

Mrs / [....?]RANCES / SAYSE: May / she: [....?] XXV [25] / 1649. Mr NEHEMI / AH SAYSE her / son buried / Febr 2d 1673.

(26) FL, IS/worn, MD, Sandstone.

Sacred / to the memory / of MARGARET MARIA / daughter of JOHN & / SARAH MORRIS of the / City of Hereford, who / departed this life / the [....?] of Feb 1830 in / the 12 year of her age.

(27)

GEORGE MEYSEY / CLIVE / of Whitfield / 1940 ~ 1999

(28)

In memory of / Lady MARY KATHERINE CLIVE / Wife of Major M. G. D Clive & / daughter of the fifth Earl if Longford / Born 23rd August 1907 / Married 30th Dcember 1939 / & died 19th March 2010 /

Honour widows that are widows indeed 1 Tim 5-3.

(29) north side

(30) south side

(31) All black background / On a lozenge Argent on a fess sable three molets or (Clive) In pretence: Argent three molets between two barrulets all between three martlets sable (Husbands)

For Mary, daughter and heir of Martin Husbands, of Wormbridge, who married George Clive, of Styche, and died 1724

(32) Dexter background black / Clive, impaling Clive / Crest: A griffin statants argent ducally gorged gules Mantling: Gules and argent Motto: Mors janua vitae

For Sir Edward Clive, who married Judith, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Clive, and died 21 April 1771.

(33) All black background / Qly, 1st and 4th Clive, 2nd and 3rd, Or on a chevron gules three lions passant guardant or (Bolton) In pretence: Azure three arrows, 2 and 1, points downwards or (Archer) / Crest and mantling: As 2 Motto: Audacter et sincere

For Edward Bolton Clive, of Whitfield, who married in 1790 Harriet daughter and co-heir of Andrew, last Baron Archer and died 22 July 1845

(34) Sinister background black / Clive In pretence: Paly of eight embattled argent and gules (Wigley) Lover’s knot above and palm branches flanking shield

For Caroline, daughter and co-heir of Edmund Meysey Wigley, of Shakenhurst, Worcs, who in 1840 married the Rev. Archer Clive, of Whitfield, and died 13 July 1873.

(35) All black background / Crescent or for difference In pretence: Wigley Crest and motto: As 3 Mantling: Sable and argent

For the Rev. Archer Clive who died 17 September 1878