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Monument to Admiral Henry Meynell
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Baron Carlo Marochetti
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Admiral Henry Meynell (1789-1865) was the son of Hugo Meynell, of Quorndon Hall, Leicestershire. Between 1803 and 1817 he served in the Royal Navy, and as Captain of the Newcastle, visited Napoleon in exile on Saint Helena. In 1826 he was elected Tory MP for Lisburn, a seat which he held until 1847. In 1857, after his retirement from the political scene, he was appointed Rear Admiral, and then rose to Vice-Admiral in 1862. He died in Paris, at the Grand Hotel du Louvre in March 1865. Henry Meynell's sister was the wife of the Leeds banker, William Beckett, who, after her husband's death in 1863, commissioned a monument to him from Marochetti for Leeds Parish Church. The Meynell memorial at Yoxall was paid for by Louisa and Georgiana Meynell, the admiral's nieces, but the memorial seems to have been commissioned by their sister-in-law, Emily Meynell-Ingram (nee Woods) of Temple Newsam, who with her husband, was responsible for restoring Yoxall church. Emily had court connections, and the fact that Marochetti was at this time involved with several commemorations of Prince Albert, might have made this seem a prestigious choice. The tomb, with its very formal effigy, showing the admiral in naval uniform, complete with epaulettes, his lower body wrapped in a shroud-like cloak, under a low, renaissance-style canopy, is a strangely stiff and morbid creation (see Architectural History, vol.47, 2004, "Emily Meynell-Ingram and Holy Angels, Hoar Cross: a study in patronage", by Michael Hall)
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Yoxall (Staffs), St Peter's, , ,
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