Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Howard

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1643

Inscription:

(Sacred
To the Memory
Of….)
and
of Colonel Thomas Howard Eldst
Son of Sr Francis Howard ?? who
in the same Glorious cause lost
his life at Atherton Moor June 30
1643 Aged 25


Preceded by the inscription to his uncle, Thomas Howard, KIA at Piercebridge 1642:
Sacred to the memory of Colonel Thomas Howard, son of Lord William Howard, who died valiantly fighting in the cause of his king and country at Piercebridge, December 2nd, 1642

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Poor

Condition Description:

Badly weathered memorial in the churchyard, lettering wearing away. Observed 22 May 2022.

Memorial Notes:

Memorial stone for Colonel Thomas Howard, died 1643 at the Battle of Adwalton Moor. Dressed sandstone plinth supports chest capped by shaped slab of yellow sandstone, inscribed to various members of the Howard family of nearby Corby Castle, headed by the name of Colonel Howard who died at the battle of Atherton (Adwalton) Moor. Probably an upright stone which was moved to this location from another part of the graveyard, on the construction of the Howard memorial chapel (immediately west) in 1791.
See: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1335544?section=official-list-entry

For the funerary memorial to his uncle, Colonel Thomas Howard, see: https://www.battlefieldstrust.com/memorial/memorial.asp?MemorialID=362

See: English Heritage Battlefield Report 1995 Adwalton Moor 1643
Johnson, David 2003 Adwalton Moor 1643: The Battle that changed a war. Pickering, Blackthorn Press, pp.90, fn.226, YAJ, Vol.VIII, p.213; 92,