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William Savory (1768-1824) was apprenticed to a Newbury surgeon-apothecary & qualified as a surgeon & man-midwife at Guy’s & St Thomas’s hospitals, London. This Berkshire Record Society volume is a fascinating record of medical education. Buy it online berkshirerecordsociety.org.uk/product/volu...

Tucked away behind NT’s Lanhydrock House is the church of St Hydroc. Where I found this hatchment. Even at arm’s length a struggle to take a good photo of high mounted memorials etc.

And here she is looking a little healthier.

My first post here should really be of Alice de la Pole’s cadaver effigy in the marvellous Ewelme Church, Oxfordshire.