Memorial to Sir Robert Cocks
He inherited the Dumbleton Estate from his brother Richard, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.

The text of the memorial reads as follows -

In memory of Sir Robert Cocks Bart
who after fuftaining with Chriftian firtitude
and refignation the moft Affecting Lofs of
an Amiable wife and three Children in
the Courfe of a few days by a Cruel
Diftemper which Attaked his Family
had the Miffortune to loofe his own
Life by a fall from his horfe in April
1765 and lies Buried near this place

(note: spelling as on memorial !)

Edward Holland commisioned the architect G S Repton to build the new Dumbleton Hall in 1830.   He was a founder of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, and was a cousin of the novelist Mrs Gaskell.   Edward Holland's eldest son married Mrs Gaskell's daughter.

Upper Memorial

IN MEMORY OF EDWARD HOLLAND OF DUMBLETON
SON OF SWINTON COLTHURST HOLLAND
BORN FEB 11TH 1806.   DIED JAN 4TH 1875
ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS FIRST WIFE SOPHIA HOLLAND
BORN MAY 14TH 1813.     DIED JAN 5TH 1851

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee
because he trusted in thee Isaiah XXVI V III

The lower memorial remembers his granddaughter Agnes, the daughter of his eldest son Thurston

In memory of AGNES SYLVIA Daughter of
EDWARD THURSTON and MARIANNE HOLLAND
Born M16 26 1870.   Died August 14 1870

HE SHALL GATHER THE LAMBS WITH HIS ARM
AND CARRY THEM IN HIS BOSOM

Henry George "Gino" Watkins was the son of the first Lord Monsall's sister Jennie.   He visited Dumbleton Hall on numerous occasions. He was a renowned mountaineer and arctic explorer but was tragically killed in a kayak accident in Greenland in 1932 when only 25 years old.

He led an expedition to Spitzbergen in 1927 and also the British Arctic Air Route expedition in 1930-32.

He was a holder of :

The Polar Medal,  The Hans Egede Medal of Denmark,
The Founders Medal of The Royal Geographical Society,  and
The Bruce Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Memorial to Frances Lady Cocks

Frances Cocks was the wife of Sir Richard Cocks. the second baronet, who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1684 on the death of his grandfather, also Sir Richard Cocks. He was a younger brother of Dorothy Cocks. As patron of the living he appointed his brother Revd Charles Cocks as rector in 1687. He built a new manor house during the 1690s and the old manor house became the rectory.

Sir Richard became High Sheriff for Gloucestershire in 1692, was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in 1694 and became an MP in 1698. After his wife Frances died. he married Mary Bethell. There were no children from either marriage.

Inscription

To the Sacred Memory of Frances Lady Cocks the dearly and / deservedly Beloved Wife of Sir Richard Cocks of Dumbleton in the / County of Glocester Bart. She was the fifth and youngest / Daughter of Coll. Richard Neville of Billingbear in the County / of Berks, who was linealy Deleended from a younger son of / a Lord Abergavenny and of Anne his Wife. one of the daughters/ofSir Christopher Heydon of Baconthrop in the County of Norfolk, / She was a Lady endued with all the Accomplishments / Nature or Education could bestow upon or Form in Her. / She was eminently Pious and Zealous for the Established / Government and Religion, which was demonstrated by the many / Hours she Dayly spent in her private Devotions and her Constant Attendance even to the Hazard of her Health upon the Service / of the Church. She was an Orament to the Honourable Family / from which she descended and was esteemed an Honour and / Blessing to the Family she came into. She was an obliging good Neighbour to the Rich, Charitable to the Poor / the kindest Mistress and the best of Wives. She lived more then/ thirty five Years in perfect Harmony and tranquility with her / Husband as far as human Imbecillitys common to the belt of / mortals whould permit. She continued in despight of Age / and the Infirmitys incident to Mortality chearful & comely / to the last Minute of her Life. She died after a short / Indisposition of a Fever upon a Cold the First of February / Anno Dom: 1723 in the Sixtieth Year of her Age / Her Husband therefore expresses his Gratitude to Heaven / for his so long enjoying so great a Blessing & Comfort & least / the Remembrance of her should Perish with the Memory of this / Generation to perpetuate as far as in him lies the Virtues of so / excellent a Person has ordered this Monument to be Erected./

And near this Place are Deposited the Remains of the above / Sir Richard who departed this life in October 1726 deeply / Regretted by all who had the Happines of knowing him. He was / a Man of excellent Character & Understanding & among many / other distinguished Honours enjoyed that of Representing the / Countv of Glocester in Parliament.

Sir Charles Cocks Bar'. the present Owner of the Dumbleton / Estate in Testimony of the Respect he feels for the Memory / of so Respectable an Ancestor has caused this Monument / to be Repaired and added this short Inscription to the / Remembrance of Sir Richard.

The East Window

In 1887 Mrs. Caroline Isabel Eyres installed the east window of the Church in memory of her late husband. His posthumous daughter is in the guise of an angel at the bottom of the central light.

To the Glory of God and in loving memory of Henry William Eyres, born July 20th, 1857, died at Naples, April 6th, 1881

Henry William Eyres was the son of Samuel Kettlewell of Leeds and his wife, Anne Elizabeth née Eyres: he assumed the surname Eyres on attaining his majority. In 1875 he took over Dumbleton Hall from Edward Holland's son. Henry Eyres married Caroline Sharp, known as Carrie, in Yorkshire in 1880 but died in 1881, after which Carrie took responsibility for Dumbleton Hall . Their daughter, (Caroline Mary) Sybil, was born on 21 August, 1881, and was christened in Dumbleton. In 1904 Sybil married Bolton Meredith Monsell, who changed his name to Eyres Monsell and later became the first Viscount Monsell. She died in 1959. Their daughter Joan Elizabeth married the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor in 1968; they are buried next to each other in St Peter's churchyard. Bolton Meredith Monsell was the maternal uncle of Gino. Watkins Henry Eyres' widow, Caroline (Carrie).

This paragraph is reproduced from:

The Arts Society Church Recording, a Record of the Church Furnishings , St Peters Church, Dumbleton.