Sir Richard Glyn - St Thomas - Melbury Abbas, Dorset
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Coat of arms in a stained glass window of St Thomas' church, Melbury Abbas.
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Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/09/2020
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Coat of arms in a stained glass window of St Thomas' church, Melbury Abbas. Presumably of its patron, Sir Richard Glyn.
"A church has stood on this site for perhaps a thousand years. Melbury Abbas as the Second half of the name suggests was owned by the great Abbey, the Benedictine nunnery of Shaftesbury, founded by Alfred the Greatin 888 AD. He made his daughter the first Abbess. The first firm evidence of a Christian ministry here is of one Eilan, priest of Melbury in a document of 1150 AD. He is described as dependent on the generosity of the people since there was no farm or glebe.
At some point a stone church was built and a building survived until 1852, though it was then in bad repair. We know it had a tower with three bells, at least one transept, and a west door. It was demolished and the present church, a larger building took its place on the same ancient site. It cost Sir Richard Glyn, the patron, who owned nearly the whole village, £2500.00. On 21st December 1852 the Bishop of Salisbury dedicated the new church to St Thomas, whose feast day it then was. The Rector, Henry T Glyn, a member of the patron's family, and many clergy assisted in a long ceremony."
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"Stained Glass Windows at St Thomas
Melbury Abbas, Dorset |
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Window |
Date |
Lights |
Firm |
Subjects |
Source |
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NC1 |
1852 |
1 |
Willement signed |
Arms of Richard Glyn |
ADD MS 34871 p103 |
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NChE |
1852 |
2 |
Willement signed |
Patterned glass with Glyn Coat of Arms |
ADD MS 52413 |
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"Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet (2 February 1755 – 27 April 1838) was a British banker and politician.
Glyn was the son of Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Elizabeth (née Carr). He was educated at Westminster School and on his father's death in 1773 became a partner in his late father's bank, "Vere, Glyn and Hallifax", renamed as "Hallifax, Mills, Glyn and Mitton".
He was elected an Alderman of Bishopsgate, 1790 to 1829, and of Bridge without, from 1829 till his resignation in 1835. He served as Sheriff of London in 1790 and was knighted that same year. In 1798 he was elected Lord Mayor of London, a post previously held by his father, and made a baronet (of Gaunt's House in the County of Dorset) the following year.
He represented St Ives in Parliament from 1796 to 1802.
Glyn married Mary, daughter of John Plumtre, in 1785. They had several children. He died in April 1838, aged 83, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Richard. Glyn's fourth son George became a prominent banker and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wolverton in 1869."
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