“Memorial to Christopher and Sarah D'Oyly”

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Memorial to Christopher and Sarah D'Oyly

Francis Chantrey

c. 1821

Marble

St. Mary's Church, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

Photograph and text Jacqueline Banerjee

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Christopher D'Oyly was an eminent barrister and politician. According to the inscription here, "His professional abilities were ever engaged in acts of humanity, in allaying animosities, in composing differences." His wife Sarah, who outlived him” by over twenty-five years, was the granddaughter of the famous physician Sir Hans Sloane (as also mentioned in the inscription). The King's England volume on Surrey gives precedence to the widow, describing the monument as "a fine work” by Chantrey with a woman weeping for Sarah D'Oyly and her husband," adding that "Chantrey did some of his first works" in her family house at Twickenham (302).

Bibliography

Boyer, T. H. "D'Oyly, Christopher (bap. 1717, d. 1795)." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Viewed 6 February 2008.

Mee, Arthur, ed. The King's England: Surrey. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.

Last modified 10 February 2008