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Lady
Sarah Lennox 1792-1815
Lady
Sarah Lennox buried in Tongham churchyard is the great niece of the
famous Lady Sarah Lennox (who has an affair with King George III and
was featured in the BBC1 series 'Aristocrats')
Lady
Sarah Lennox (daughter of the Fourth Duke of Richmond) married
General Peregrine Maitland (who is also buried in the Tongham churchyard)
General
Peregrine Maitland is famed for his commanded of the 1st Guards
Brigade (composed of the 1st and 3rd Battalions Grenadier Guards -
each a thousand strong) at the battles of Quatre Bras (16th June) and
at Waterloo, 18th June 1815.
Sarah
and Peregrine had several children who are also buried in Tongham
churchyard. Their first son Charles Brownlow Lennox Maitland became a
soldier like his father, served in the Crimean War retiring as a
General in 1886.
His
younger brother Horatio Arthur Lennox Maitland lived from the
eighteen eighties at Tongham Manor (in The Street where there are now
council flats) and later at "The Elms" (also now
demolished) in Manor Road, Tongham.
He
became an Admiral, his name is listed on the memorial plaque on the
Village Hall and he died in 1904.
Another
brother George died in infancy.
Of
their three daughters two married. Charlotte Caroline Maitland
married John
George
Turnbull of the Indian Civil Service and lived on the Hogs Back at Whiteways.
Sarah's
mother the Duchess of Richmond gave the famous ball in Brussels on
the eve of Waterloo which was featured in another TV. serialisation
of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair".
Of
their three daughters, Charlotte Caroline Maitland married John
George Turnbull of the Indian Civil Service and lived on the Hogs
Back at Whiteways.
Sarah
Maitland their eldest daughter married Lieut. General Thomas Bowes Foster.
Sarah
Maitland's eldest daughter Susan married the Rev. Charles Garbett,
the first vicar of Tongham and they lived at Tongham vicarage.
Susan
was thirty years younger than her husband Charles who was a widower
of sixty with a grown up family when she married him in 1873.
They
had five children: Cyril, Basil, Clement, Leonard and Elsie.
Cyril
Foster Garbett (See below) became Archbishop of York and died in
1955. Had the Archbishop lived to enjoy the peerage conferred upon
him on his retirement and gazetted in the New Year's Honours List of
1956 he was to have taken the title "Lord Garbett of Tongham".
There
is a memorial to Basil Garbett in Tongham church as he was
accidentally drowned in India in July 1900.
Most
of the information in this article was taken from Howard Cole's book
"A Surrey Village and its Church" published in the 1970's
and now sadly out of print.
Smyth's
biography "Cyril Foster Garbett: Archbishop of York"
(published 1959).
The
Lennox Connection by Gillian Picken
Cyril
Forster Garbett 1875-1955
Cyril
Forster Garbett was born the 6th February 1875, and was the eldest
son of The
Reverend
Charles Garbett, the Vicar of Tongham.
Cyril
Forster Garbett was made Deacon in 1899 by Randall Davidson, then
Bishop of Winchester and later Archbishop of Canterbury, and was
ordained Priest by him in 1901.
From
1899 until 1909, The Reverend Cyril Garbett was the Curate of
Portsea, and from 1909
until
1919 was its Vicar. Then, in 1919, Father Garbett was appointed
Bishop of Southwark and
remained
there until his translation to the See of Winchester in 1932. In
1942, His Majesty The King appointed him Archbishop of York.
As
Archbishop of York, Dr Garbett became known as the "Walking
Bishop" who adorned with purpe cassok and armed with walking
stick, traversed the length and breadth of his Province, visiting as
many villages and towns as possible.
Dr
Garbett attended the House of Lords every day that Parliament was in
session, taking very seriously his right as the Primate of England
and a Bishop of the Established Church to sit in the House of Lords.
Finally,
work and travel had exhausted him; and on his eightieth birthday in
1955, Dr Garbett
resigned
the Metropolitical and Primatial See of York, and retired from
active ministry. Later
that
year, Dr Garbett underwent surgery, and spent the last remaining
months of his life in a
convalescent
nursing home where he continued to write and to keep up his voluminous
correspondence
until his death.
On
New Year's Eve, 1955, The Most Reverend Cyril Forster Garbett, D.D.,
now Lord Garbett
of
Tongham, passed from this life to be with his Lord. The Funeral
Service was held on Wednesday, the 4th January 1956.
From,
The Claims of the Church of England, Hodder and Stoughton Limited,
London, 1947.
(The
foregoing article, with the exception of the extracts from The
Claims of the Church of England, and the tribute of the late
Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, D.D., in
memory of Archbishop Garbett and broadcast over the B.B.C. Home
Service on the 4th January 1956, was written by the Ven. R. D.
Redmile, and is copyrighted by the Christian Episcopal Church of
Canada, 2000.)
Lieutenant
Colonel Howard Cole 1911-1983
In
1930 Howard Cole enlisted in the Territorial Army. In July 1935
Howard was commissioned into the Territorials as a Second Lieutenant.
During his time with the Territorials Howard Cole came to Aldershot
several times for Training, staying at Waterloo Barracks. With the
outbreak of the Second World War and after serving time at Sandhurst
in 1942, he was promoted to the rank of Major.
He
was awarded an OBE in 1945 for services in northwest Europe during
the war. In March 1946 Cole was employed by Gale and Polden Ltd and
became a Member of the Aldershot and District Chamber of Commerce
which in due time he became President of.
His
collectoion of memorabilia and pictures can be found in the
Aldershot Military Museums.
Howard
Cole is also author of The Story of Aldershot, first published in
1951. He died in May 1983.
Howard
Cole Pictured Right (Reproduced by kind permission of Aldershot
Military Museum)
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