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Large Perpendicular Gothic tablet to Rev Sir Edward Bowyer Smith d.1850, by Osmond, Sarum.
Sacred
to the Memory of
The Revd Sir Edward Bowyer Smijth.
10th Baronet of Hill Hall;
and sometime Rector of this Church,
with that of Stapleford Tawney.
He was the fourth Son of Sir William Smijth, Baronet,
and his Wife, Anne Windham.
He married Laetitia Cicely, 6th daughter
of John Weyland, Esquire,
of Woodraton, Oxon, and Woodrising, Norfolk,
by whom he had three sons and four daughters.
He departed this life, respected and deeply lamented,
on the 15th of August, 1850.
Aged 65 Years.
This Monument was erected by his Widow
Dame Laetitia Cicily Bowyer Smijth.
Also to the Memory of the above-named
Dame Laetitia Cicely Bowyer Smijth.
She died on the 3rd of March 1863, Aged 31 [???]
"Into thy hands I commend my spirit,
for thou hast redeemed
me. Oh Lord, thou God of truth."