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Memorial: M2448

Effigy at Trinity Hospital, Greenwich part of a monument commemorating Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton Lord Privy Seal d. 1614

Location

Trinity Hospital, Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'HENRICUS HOWARDUS, HENRICI COMITIS SURRIAE FILIUS, THOMAE SECUNDI DUCIS NORFOLCIAE NEPOS; ET THOMAE TERTII FRATER; COMES NORTHAMPTONIAE; BARON HOWARD DE MARNEHILL; PRIVATI SIGILLI CUSTOS, CASTRI DOVERENSIS CONSTABULARIUS, QUINQUE PORTUUM CUSTOS, CANCELLARIUS ET ADMIRALLUS, JACOBO MAGNAE BRITANNIAE REGI AB INTIMIS CONCILIIS, ORDINIS PERISCELIDIS EQUES AURATUS ET ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSIS CANCELLARIUS, INTER NOBILES LITERATISSIMUS IN SPEM RESURGENDI IN CHRISTO HIC CONDITUR OB 15 DIE JUNII AD 1614 INCLYTUS HIC COMES TRIA HOSPITALIA FUNDAVIT ET LATI FUNDIIS DOTAVIT, UNUM GRENOVICI IN CANTIO IN QUO VIGINTI EGENI ET PRAEFECTUS; ALTERUM CLUNI IN COMITATU SALOPIAE IN QUO 12 EGENI CUM PRAEFECTO, TERTIUM AD CASTRUM RISING IN COMITATU NORFOLCIAE IN QUO 12 PAUPERCULAE CUM GUBERNATRICE IN PERPETUUM ALANTUR JOANNE GRIFFITHO HUIC COMITI AB EPISTOLIS CURANTE, POSITUM' [Henry Howard, son of Henry Earl of Surrey (who was grandson of Thomas, Second Duke of Norfolk) he was the brother of Thomas (Howard) III (4th Duke of Norfolk) Earl of Northampton, Baron Howard of Marnehill, Keeper of the Privy Seal, constable of the castle of Dover, Warden of the Cinque Ports, chancellor and admiral, Privy Councilor of James, King of Great Britain, Knight of the Garter and chancellor of Cambridge University. The most learned of noblemen. He died on 15th June 1614 and lies here in hope of resurrection in Christ. This celebrated Earl founded three hospitals and endowed them with revenues. The first at Greenwich in Kent, housed twenty needy men and a governor, another at Clun in the County of Shropshire-twelve poor men and a governor, the third at Castel Rising in the County of Norfolk-twelve poor women and a governess.] 'Near this monument lies the body of the Right Hon Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, Baron of Marnehill, Keeper of the Privy Seal, Guardian of ye Cinque Ports, Constable of the Castle of Dover, Chancelor of Camb. and Kt of the Garter. A monument was first erected in the Chappel of the Castle of Dover, Ano Dom 1614, but the said chappel falling to decay, the Worshipful Company of Mercers, London (Governors of this Hospital, founded ano 1613 by the aforesaid E of North.) caused a monument together with ye body of the said E. of North. to be removed into this chappel by the permission of the Arch. of Canterb. Hn D of Norf and Henry E. of Romney William Ivat, Esq Master Mr Jasper Clotterbooke Jun. Mr William Bridges Mr John Archer Wardens of ye Company of Mercers ano 1666 By the care of Mr Fran Burry mercer John Stowe then warden of this Hospital'

Details

Description: Kneeling effigy in armour wearing the mantle of a Knight of the Garter and a ruff. Originally part of a white-veined marble altar tomb, supporting a baldachino resting on four square pillars and enclosing a black marble sarcophagus. Figures representing the four cardinal virtues - temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice were placed at the corners. The effigy was in the centre of the canopy, with a sword (now missing). At the corners of the canopy were four cherubs bearing the arms of the Howard, Brotherton, Warren and Mowbray families. There were more arms on panels at the ends of the base.
Type: Effigy
Position: South side nave
Date Erected: 1615
Artists: Nicholas Stone

People

Howard, Henry
Age: 74
Date of Death: 15/6/1614
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: nobleman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER Cost £500-00. Moved from Dover circa 1696. Broken up when chapel rebuilt in 1812.
Bibliography: Charles Heathcote Tatham 'A description of the Ancient Monument of Henry Earl of Northampton KG the founder of Trinity Hospital at East Greenwich in the County of Kent' (1838 reprinted 1873); John Stow ed. Strype 'A survey of the cities of London and Westminster' App.1, pp. 93-4; Horace Walpole 'Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some account of the principal artists' (London, 1888); K.A. Esdaile 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1946) p. 82; 'Walpole Society' vol. vii, p. 38.
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