Monument Details

 

  Cross on 3 tiers; 4 Kerbstones
  Granite Lead letters
   
  South Kerbstone: Outer slope: Basil Upton Eddis 1850 + 1936. // 2nd Tier: East Face: Abide with us. //
   
  Very good.
  P(C)9
    Basil was the 4th of 12 children born in St Pancras to Arthur Shelley Eddis, QC, Barrister-at-Law & Elizabeth Mary nee Wright. He was educated in Shere, Surrey and Trinity College Cambridge where he read Law. He worked as a Solicitor then became Registrar at Clerkenwell County Court. He lived in Mayfair and Chelsea. In 1896 he married in Exeter, Margaret anna Kindersely, daughter of a Vicar. THeir only child, Michael Upton Eddis was born in 1897 in Chelsea. Basil & Margaret did not move from London until later in life being recorded at 96, Newtown Road, Newbury in 1935. A year later Basil died on 23 Nov 1936at a Nursing Home, St John's Lodge, St John's Rd, Newbury. He left over £6,000His wife did not stay in Newbury, miving to Surrey, Devon and finally to her son's home in London. She is buried in Camden Cemetery. Sources: Dates of birth & death & biographical infomration from Ancestry records & NCR Buur Recds.
   
  02 February 2021
  Elizabeth
 

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