(172) MARESFIELD, St. Bartholomew
172C Mural monument for Edward KIDDER, d. 1817
- Tower, South wall, towards East end, above head height.
- c.62(W) x c.106(H)~Good; colour traces.
- Low relief roundels of arms, top and bottom, that at the top with armoured man with shield; M.I. (21 lines, engraved, centred, black) on an unframed marble tablet; rounded top and shoulders; a curved base with simple moulding.
- Edward Kidder, citizen of London, d. 21 Jun 1817 aet 47, his wife, Maria Emery, of Potton, Bedfordshire; their issue - 2 sons, 6 daughters; descended from George Kidder, of an ancient family in this parish, whose son Vincent, Army Major in Ireland in 1649, married Ellen Loftus, daughter of Sir Thomas Loftus, of Killian, Meath, the fourth son of Adam Loftus, D.D., archbishop of Dublin, etc.; issue of Vincent and Ellen - 3 sons and 6 daughters, of whom the second son, Vincent, distinguished himself in 1689, and also at the Battle of the Boyne [1690], and was later a Colonel of the Dublin Militia, d. 1736; erected by Edward's brother Thomas.
