Image: All Saints Church Damaris Cudworth tablet plaque High Laver Essex England

Description: Marble wall memorial tablet plaque to Damaris Cudworth (née Andrews through first marriage, 1623-1695), daughter to Matthew Cradock, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and late wife to the Cambridge Platonist Rev Ralph Cudworth, in All Saints Church at High Laver, Essex, England. Damaris was mother to Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham who had married Sir Francis Masham MP (1646-1723) as his second wife. The Mashams, a family originally from Yorkshire, acquired 'Oates' (to the north-west of the church and demolished 1830), in 1615. Sir Francis Masham was father to Samuel (1678/9–1758), first Baron Masham who had married Abigail Hill (c.1670–1734), cousin to Sarah Churchill. Abigail became favourite companion and Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Anne. Samuel (1712–1776), second Baron Masham, son to Abigail and the first Baron, through profligacy squandered the family wealth, some of which was that of John Locke (buried in the churchyard), who lived in the Masham household for the last years of his life and had bequeathed his wealth to Lady Damaris, and Sir Francis Masham and Lady Damaris' only child, Francis Cudworth Masham (1686–1731). Lady Damaris was interred at Bath Abbey, her son Francis Cudworth Masham at the nearby parish church at Matching, his vault discovered in 1990. Camera: Canon EOS 6D with Canon EF 24-105mm F4L IS USM lens. Software: RAW file lens-corrected, optimized and downsized with DxO OpticsPro 11 Elite, Viewpoint 2, and Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Title: All Saints Church Damaris Cudworth tablet plaque High Laver Essex England
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