Memorials of Thomas George Tebay, M.D / [Charlotte Tebay].

  • Tebay, Charlotte.
Date:
1893
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memorials of Thomas George Tebay, M.D / [Charlotte Tebay]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    off as a relic, has been carefully preserved. A few years ago it was kept at the priest’s house at Here- ford, and enclosed in a box which had a piece of glass let into the lid. It has become quite dark and looks as if carved in wood. It is a beautifully formed hand, the fingers are half closed, part of the palm has been cut out as relics. There were documents in the box to prove that some persons who had touched the hand in illness had received benefit. A pen-and-ink profile sketch was taken of Father Kemble when in prison, and from this an oil paint- ing was made by the late Mr. Charles Weld, of Chideock. This portrait differs in some respects from one which belonged to the late Canon Bick. At his death it was for many years in the care of the late Canon Trovell, and when he died it came into the possession of Mrs. Clarkson. In the one now referred to he is evidently looking up to some one who is speaking to him, there is a bright, shrewd, and kind expression, fully answering to the genial character given him by his contemporaries. The nephew, Captain Richard Kemble, who took such reverent care of the Martyr’s body, was captain lieutenant to Lord Talbot at the Battle of Worcester. He, with others, rallied the royal forces and charged the enemy very gallantly, both in Sudbury Street and High Street, where Sir James Hamilton and he himself were desperately wounded. This action secured His Majesty’s march out at St. Martin’s Gate, who had otherwise been in danger of being taken in the town.1 It must have been during this 1 Vide Memoirs of Count Grammont and Charles II., Bohn.