Brooke Hector Smallwood memorial
Brooke Hector Smallwood Memorial
This memorial was erected in Cheswardine Church in 1939, about 49 years after the death of
Brooke Hector Smallwood in 1890.
This memorial was erected in 1939 on the west wall of the north aisle of St Swithun's Church in Cheswardine.
The wording of the memorial is as follows:-
"IN THIS CHURCHYARD ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF BROOK HECTOR SMALLWOOD OF NEWPORT IN THIS COUNTY WHO DIED OCTOBER 1890. HE WAS A SON AND LAST SURVIVING DESCENDANT OF THOMAS SMALLWOOD WHO WAS A BANKER OF MARKET DRAYTON AND RESIDENT AT HALES HALL IN THAT PARISH AT ONE TIME PATRON OF THIS BENEFICE."
A copy of the faculty, the name given to the authority given by the Bishop of Lichfield, for the erection of the monument is shown below.
The cost of the memorial was covered by the will of Brooke Robinson, a solicitor from Dudley, in the Black Country, who had been named in Brooke Hector Smallwood's will as a a trustee. After the death of Brooke Robinson in 1911, his widow, Mabel Fanny Mary Robinson (nee Askew) remarried, to a William Nevett in the autumn of 1915. About two years before her death in the late summer of 1942, she applied with William George Darby, (both of whom were trustees of Brooke Robinson) for the faculty for the erection of the memorial.
The total cost of the memorial was £39 : 3s : 6d (£39.18) which would equate to about £1750 in modern terms.
Brooke Hector Smallwood was an attorney or lawyer in Newport, Shropshire, and used to reside at what is now known as Smallwood Lodge, Upper Bar, Newport.