Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

John

Last Name:

Clobery

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Post 1688

Inscription:

Inscription according to IWM (below):
SIR JOHN CLOBERY. CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH GENERAL MONK AND INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING OF MONK'S MARCH SOUTH WITH THE CONDSTREAM GUARDS IN SUPPORT OF CHARLES II. (NOT EXACT WORDING) EXACT WORDING CONTINUES: "AND WHAT MONK AND HE (CLOBERY) HIMSELF HAD PLANNNED IN SCOTLAND, THIS WHEN THEY CAME TO LONDON THEY EASILY PUT INTO EFFECT. THUS THEY RESTORED PEACE TO ENGLAND, AND CHARLES THE SECOND TO THE THRONE, THE WHOLE PEOPLE APPLAUDING....AMIDST THE NOISE OF ARMS...HE APPLIED HIMSELF SEDULOUSLY (A THING RARELY FOUND IN SOLDIERS) TO HUMANE LETTERS AND HE SEEMED TO HAVE GROWN OLD AT ATHENS RATHER THAN IN CAMP."

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence from 2016

Memorial Notes:

Sculpted figure of Clobery, left arm on hip and staff in right hand. Set in oval recess, coat of arms above.

See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/21979?fbclid=IwY2xjawPPVdJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBvZXRVeTNwQm15N012ZU5lc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHn9Kn38p1IteuYEidv1t7lvadOKVSnNEfQEoGAltHRIkshIXplKVPliASR0C_aem_zoKclpkFcj4k7UgMbYC0dA

See: Goldsmith, R.F.K. The Military Memorials of Winchester Cathedral (The Friends of Winchester Cathedral, 1974)

See: Vaughan, John, Winchester Cathedral: Its Monuments & Memorials (London, 1919)