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Higham Gobion: ‘monument in Higham Gobion church’ to Edmund Castell. Summary of Latin inscription: Edmund Castell S.T.D Regius Master of Charles II, canon of Canterbury Cathedral, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, Fellow of the Royal Society, author of the Lexicon Heptaglotton, and rector of this church. His mortal remains lie with those of his wife Lady Elizabeth Bettelworth, widow first of Sir Peter Bettelworth and then of John Herris esquire (whose one son with Elizabeth, William, also lies here). In the year 1674, Edmund aged 68 and Elizabeth aged 64. ‘The living here reads the buried’. Ends with an Arabic inscription. [Monument put up by Edmund Castell during his lifetime, eleven years before his death in 1685] Watercolour by Thomas Fisher.

n.d. [c.1815]

From: 1810 To: 1820

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Fisher, Thomas,
Castell, Edmund,
Charles II,
Bettelworth, Elizabeth,
Bettelworth, Peter,
Herris, John,
Herris, Elizabeth,
Herris, William

HIGHAM GOBION, Thomas Fisher, paintings, Thomas Fisher, monuments, monumental inscriptions, Latin, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Arabic, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Royal Society, Professor of Arabic, books