Nicholas Monck (1610 - 1661)

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Right Reverend Nicholas Monck was the third son of Sir Thomas Monck, knt., of Potheridge, Devonshire, and younger brother to George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, the famous general. He was born at Potheridge in 1610, and in 1629 matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford. He graduated B. A. on 3 March 1630-1, and M. A. on 30 October 1633. [1]

• By his wife Susannah, daughter of Thomas Payne, rector of Plymtree, Devonshire, and widow of Christopher Trosse, whom he married in 1642, Nicholas had two daughters, Mary, married to Arthur Fairwell of Westminster, and Elizabeth, married to Curwen Rawlinson of Carke Hall, Cartmell, Lancashire. A son Nicholas died young. On the daughter Elizabeth's monument, put up by her son Christopher Rawlinson at St. Mary's Church, Cartmell, Nicholas is described as 'a great assistant in the Restoration to his brother.' In 1723, Christopher Rawlinson erected a pyramidical monument of black and white marble to the bishop in St. Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey. [1]

• He died on 17 December 1661, aged 51, at his lodgings in Old Palace Yard, and was buried on the 20th in Westminster Abbey, his brother George attending the funeral as chief mourner.[1]

• Profile data collected by Varnell-40 18:11, 30 September 2015 (EDT) from Wikipedia website^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Monck

• *Knighton, C. S. (Sep 2004). "Monck, Nicholas (c.1610–1661)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
• Visitation of Buckinghamshire additional Pedigrees Page 181: Monck