Monument list for St Katherine Church burial ground

Monument list

no.	family surname	full name	birth year	age	burial year	image name	GPR ref.	view no.	request no.	notes

1	Adams	Frederick Adams	1856	57	1913	id: 4470	338694	1259	1
		Louisa Adams	1856	89	1945

2	Alcock	Rutherford Alcock	1809	88	1897	id: 4490	338714	1448	1	late Ambassador to the Court of Peking. Sir Rutherford Alcock, KCB (May 1809 - 2 November 1897) was the first British diplomatic representative to live in Japan. Early life Alcock was the son of the physician, Dr. Thomas Alcock, who practised at Ealing, near London. He was named John Rutherford Alcock, but dropped the John very early. As he grew up, Alcock followed his father into the medical profession. In 1836, he became a surgeon in the marine brigade which took part in the Carlist War, gaining distinction through his services. Alcock was made deputy inspector-general of hospitals. He retired from this service in 1837. Service in China In 1844, he was appointed consul at Fuchow in China, where, after a short official stay at Amoy, he performed the functions, as he expressed it: of everything from a lord chancellor to a sheriff's officer. Fuchow was one of the ports opened to trade by the Treaty of Nanking, and Alcock had to perform an entirely new role with regard to the Chinese authorities. In doing so, he earned a promotion to the consulate at Shanghai. He worked there until 1846 and made it a special part of his duties to superintend the established Chinese government and lay out the British settlement, which had developed into such an important feature of British commercial life in China. Service in Japan (1858-64) In 1858, he was appointed Consul-General in Japan.Alcock opened the first British legation in Japan within the grounds of Tōzen-ji in Takanawa, Edo (now Tokyo). He saw: peace, plenty, apparent content, and a country more perfectly cultivated and kept, with more ornamental timber everywhere, than can be matched even in England. In those days, foreign residents in Japan faced some danger, with noticeable Japanese hostility to foreigners. In 1860, Alcock's native interpreter was murdered at the gate of the legation, and in the following year the legation was stormed by a group of ronin from the fiefdom of Mito Han, whose attack was repulsed by Alcock and his staff. In 1860 he became the first non-Japanese to climb Mount Fuji. Service in China (1865-69) Shortly after these events he returned to England on leave on March 1862, and was replaced in Japan by Colonel Neale. Alcock had already been made a Commander of the Bath (CB) (1860). In 1862 he was made a Knight of the same order (KCB), and in 1863 received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Oxford University. In 1864, he returned to Japan, and after a year's further residence he was transferred to Peking, where he represented the British government until 1869, when he retired. Later years Although no longer in official life, he remained active. He was for some years president of the Royal Geographical Society, and he served on many commissions. The official Japanese section at the 1862 International Exhibition in London was prepared by Sir Rutherford and included his own collection. This is considered one of the most important events in the history of Japanese art in the West and a founding date for English Japonism in the decorative arts, the Anglo-Japanese style. From 1882-93 he was chairman of the British North Borneo Chartered Company. He was twice married, first in May 1841 to Henrietta Mary Bacon (daughter of Charles Bacon), who died in 1853, and second (on 8 July 1862) to the widow of the Rev. John Lowder. His second wife died on 13 March 1899. Alcock was the author of several works, and was one of the first to awaken in England an interest in Japanese art. He tried hard to learn the language and even wrote a text book. His best-known book is The Capital of the Tycoon, which appeared in 1863. He died in London on 2 November 1897
		Lucy Alcock			1899					Lucy Alcock nee Windsor formerly Lowder was baptized on 29 August 1814 at St Mary's Chapel Walcot near Bath, the daughter of James William Windsor, missionary, and Alicia. She married (1) the Reverend John Samuel Lowder 1811 to 1849 on 1 September 1840 at St Swithn's Walcot. (Note by John Owen: John Lowder was the nephew of Thomas Henry Lowder who married Maria Lewis, my 4 x great aunt on my mother's side). Lucy and John Lowder had 5 children: Windsor 1841 - 1897, John Frederick 1843 - 1903, George Glass 1844 - 1880, Alicia Eirene 1845 - 1861 and Amy Henrietta 1847 - 1924 who married Sir Lewis Pelly. After John Lowder's death Lucy married (2) Sir John Rutherford Alcock 1809 - 1987 in Brussels on 8 July 1862. Here are some details of a letter she wrote to Kew when with her husband in China: Letter from [Lady] Lucy Alcock to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; from British Legation, Peking; 25 Nov 1867; four page letter comprising two images; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archives: Directors' Correspondence. Description. Alcock has not forgotten Hooker's instructions to send home any sheets or specimens of plants, but she has not yet succeeded in getting any. She took a Ward's case to the hills with her last summer and tried to strike some cuttings of the Popler [Poplar?] plant, of which she sent some dried seeds, but none has taken and there are no seeds to be procured. She will try again next summer and hopes for better luck. They have a very pretty Acacia there that she never sees in England; she describes the flower and sends a leaf and flower dried and some seeds. She also sends two ferns found at the hills, which are unlike those they have seen before, although they may be old friends of Hooker's. They made a trip to the Great Wall this autumn but she saw no new flowers or plants although she looked about carefully. Her husband wrote to Hooker last mail asking Hooker to send some vegetable seed. She wonders if Hooker might add in some watercress, mushroom seed and a little mustard and cress. The flower seeds do not succeed at all there, whether owing to the great heat or dry sandy soil, she does not know. On looking over their collection of dried plants Alcock finds a wild creeper that she does not remember seeing elsewhere. It is a parasite, quite white and succulent and it grows freely on the hills. She encloses a specimen for Hooker. Lucy died in London and was buried at Merstham on 17 March 1899.

3	Aldridge	William C Aldridge	1866	55	1921	id: 4464	338687	1239	1

4	Arnold	Joseph Arnold	1892	5	1897	id: 4444	338664	1350	1

5	Ashby	Annie Ashby			1937	id: 4437	338655	1349	1

6	Ashby	Mark Ashby	1873	92	1965	id: 4437	338656	1342	1

7	Atkins	Alfred Atkins	1877	29	1906	id: 4426	338644	1437	1

8	Atkins	Mary Ann Atkins	1875	15	1890	id: 4426	338643	1325	1

9	Augarde	Henrietta Augarde			1923	id: 4370	338586	1304	1

10	Aylett	George Aylett	1879	27	1906	id: 4371	338587	1355	1
		George Aylett	1853	79	1932
		Sarah Aylett	1853	70	1923

11	Bailey	James Saffrey Bailey	1917	0	1917	id: 4383	338600	1238	1

12	Bailey	Lilian Bailey	1898	21	1919	id: 4465	338688	1291	1
		John Bailey	1861	70	1931
		Sophia Bailey	1867	87	1954

13	Baker	Samuel Baker	1852	55	1907	id: 4335	338531	1249	1

14	Baker	William Baker	1817	89	1906	id: 4335	338530	1202	1

15	Batcock	Catherine Batcock	1772	62	1834	id: 4565	338802	1161	1
		John Batcock	1768	69	1837

16	Batcock	John Batcock	1799	2	1801	id: 4571	338807	1162	1
		John Batcock
		Katharine Batcock
		Hannah Batcock	1801	1	1802

17	Battiscombe	P Battiscombe	1913	32	1945	id: 4584	338818	1153	1	CWGC gravestone.
		William Harold Battiscombe
		Irene Beatrice Battiscombe			1946

18	Bell	Peter Bell			1581	id: 4325	338520	1250	1
		Robert Bell			1587

19	Bennett	John Bennett	1756	52	1808	id: 4512	338741	1143	1

20	Bennett	Marshal Bennett	1849	73	1922	id: 4334	338529	1193	1
		Harold Valentine Bennett	1918	1	1919
		Ellen Bennett

21	Benson	Martin Benson	1762	71	1833	id: 4310	338505	1188	1	Rector of Merstham

22	Benson	Mary Benson	1757	56	1813	id: 4320	338518	1223	1
		Louisa Benson	1794	18	1812
		Mary Anne Benson	1787	25	1812
		Martin Benson

23	Beswick	Eric Harold Beswick	1896	4	1900	id: 4359	338568	1226	1

24	Beswick	Florence E C Beswick	1857	85	1942	id: 4359	338569	1247	1

25	Betchley	Mary Betchley	1825	72	1897	id: 4425	338642	1417	1
		George Betchley	1838	64	1902

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