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Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:46 pm    Post subject: Commander Charles Spencer Ricketts Reply with quote

Lieutenant Charles Spencer Ricketts was promoted on 14 December 1809.
On 3 February 1814 he married an heiress, Elizabeth Sophia, daughter of Thomas Aubrey, and niece of Sir John Aubrey, 6th Bt, and became a Buckinghamshire squire. Her father, Colonel Thomas Aubrey, MP, had died on 15 January 1814.
He died on 27 February 1867.
His widow became on 30 April 1868, aged 76, the 4th wife of the Rev George Chetwode, son of Sir John Chetwode, 4th Bt.


Photograph by Jacqueline Banerjee 2007

His funerary monument in Kensal Green Cemetery, erected by his daughter, Mrs Julia Bonnar, is described as "an atrociously rich Gothic shrine".
"Portland stone canopied tomb with shafts of Peterhead granite, standing on colonnettes of Serpentine marble. Inner chest in form of a medieval bier, draped with a feigned heraldic awning with Union Jacks and enriched with mastic-filled inlay, standing on eight colonnettes. Outer canopy supported by eight ringed shafts with three trefoil-headed openings per side. Each gable is enriched with a relief of a woodewose, and terminates with a crocketed finial. Gargolye waterspouts."
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