Commander Henry Beavis
The name Henry Beavis is not the first name listed on the monument.
The monument is in St Mary the Virgin 2 church burial ground, Pilton, Devon, England.
There are 87 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
No date of death is recorded against Henry Beavis entry on the monument.
Henry Beavis is listed on the GPR grave numbered 115109.
Henry Beavis is listed as the relationship not given of Josiah Crane on the grave monument.
Henry Beavis has the record number 249069 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 30 January 2011
There is one image available for the monument listing Henry Beavis (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Henry Beavis record:
As explained by parenthetical use of commas on the memorial tablet, Henry Beavis was commander of the North Devon Regiment of Local Militia in which Captain Josiah Crane served as Adjutant but that has been misunderstood such that this memorial to Josiah Crane is misrepresented on some Wiki things as being that of Henry Beavis. Henry Beavis Sr was twice Mayor of Barnstaple in 1738 and 1751 and died in 1757. His son Col. Henry Beavis Jr (1736-1826) was a career army officer (and never Mayor of Barnstaple) and it was he, Col. Henry Beavis Jr, who in later life commanded the local militia. Henry Jr was a lifelong bachelor but is credited as having adopted a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Robert Newton Incledon at Pilton in 1797 and died in 1804. Elizabeth's birth identity seems to be uncertain, there being circumstantial evidence that she was Henry's natural daughter.