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Date
Speaker
Talk
06.02.23
Bryan Howard
Preston – Changes in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth II
06.03.23
Marc Oxley
Uppingham Postcards
03.04.23
Matthew Morris
Richard III
01.05.23
Paul Dadford
The Melton-Oakham Canal
05.06.23
Gareth King
The History of Surnames
03.07.23
Mick Rawle
Enclosure and the Village Labourer
07.08.23
Summer Break
No Talk
04.09.23
Visit
TBA
02.10.23
Stuart Orme
The Private Life of Oliver Cromwell
06.11.23
John Hodgkinson
The Hodgkinson & Candler Families
04.12.23
Philippa Massey
Christmas: Midwinter Traditions
Date
Speaker
Talk
06.02.23
Bryan Howard
Preston – Changes in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth II
06.03.23
Marc Oxley
Uppingham Postcards
03.04.23
Matthew Morris
Richard III
01.05.23
Paul Dadford
The Melton-Oakham Canal
05.06.23
Gareth King
The History of Surnames
03.07.23
Mick Rawle
Enclosure and the Village Labourer
07.08.23
Summer Break
No Talk
04.09.23
Visit
TBA
02.10.23
Stuart Orme
The Private Life of Oliver Cromwell
06.11.23
John Hodgkinson
The Hodgkinson & Candler Families
04.12.23
Philippa Massey
Christmas: Midwinter Traditions
05.02.24
Dr Vivian Anthony
Uppingham's Social Revolution
04.03.24
Matthew Morris
Archaeology After Richard III –A decade of discoveries in Leicester
01.04.24
Gareth King
The History of Place Names
06.05.24
Paul Warren
Coventry
03.06.24
Ann Redshaw
Rockingham – The Village Under the Castle
01.07.24
Linda Ball
Stamford Priories
05.08.24
Summer Break
02.09.24
John Hillier
Harringworth Viaduct
07.10.24
Stuart Orme
Gunpowder Plot
04.11.24
Steve King
Benefit Cheats in the Popular and Policy Imagination, 1750 to 2023
02.12.24
David Hearsum
The Development of Uppingham School Estate and its Estates
Department 1960 – 2016
05.02.24
Dr Vivian Anthony
Uppingham's Social Revolution
04.03.24
Matthew Morris
Archaeology After Richard III –A decade of
discoveries in Leicester
01.04.24
Gareth King
The History of Place Names
06.05.24
Paul Warren
Coventry
03.06.24
Ann Redshaw
Rockingham – The Village Under the Castle
01.07.24
Linda Ball
Stamford Priories
05.08.24
Summer Break
02.09.24
John Hillier
Harringworth Viaduct
07.10.24
Stuart Orme
Gunpowder Plot
04.11.24
Steve King
Benefit Cheats in the Popular and Policy Imagination, 1750
to 2023
02.12.24
David Hearsum
The Development of Uppingham School Estate and
its Estates Department 1960 – 2016
Date
Speaker
Talk
05.02.24
Dr Vivian Anthony
Uppingham's Social Revolution
04.03.24
Matthew Morris
Archaeology After Richard III –A decade of discoveries in Leicester
01.04.24
Gareth King
The History of Place Names
06.05.24
Paul Warren
Coventry
03.06.24
Ann Redshaw
Rockingham – The Village Under the Castle
01.07.24
Linda Ball
Stamford Priories
05.08.24
Summer Break
No Meeting
02.09.24
John Hillier
Harringworth Viaduct
07.10.24
Stuart Orme
Gunpowder Plot
04.11.24
Steve King
Benefit Cheats in the Popular and Policy Imagination, 1750 to 2023
02.12.24
David Hearsum
The Development of Uppingham School Estate
and its Estates Department 1960 – 2016
Meetings are held in the Methodist Church Hall
Orange Street, Uppingham
at 7.30pm
The Upper Graveyard (Churchyard)
This survey was carried out by different groups of people over several years, and for
different purposes. Therefore some entries will be fuller than others. The detail is
largely in its original note form. The starting point for the survey was the research
needed for Uppingham in 1851 published by ULHSG in 2001 and consequently many of
the notes refer to the 1851 census.
NB there is a small Garden of Rest on the south side of the church containing 20th
century floor tablets commemorating cremations. These have not been recorded.
Similarly, funerary monuments and graves within the church will be added at a later
date.
How to use the Upper Graveyard database
1. Go first to the Upper Churchyard Index and search for the surname required.
2. In the far right column you will find an area number, possibly a sub area number
and a grave number.
3. Go then to the Details of Upper Graveyard and find the area, then the grave which
will give you any additional details known.
Abbreviations used in Upper Graveyard details, most are self explanatory e.g. Jan, Feb, Mar, use of
brackets, question marks etc.
1851
usually refers to detail from 1851 census
n.b.
entered in 1841 census as ‘not born this county’
SV
refers to a stone(s) in the Lower Graveyard South View area
freebmd
the freebmd website
b.m.d.
baptism or birth, marriage, death. Unless noted otherwise, all recorded deaths are known or assumed to have been in Uppingham
IGI
International Genealogical Index
qtr, dist
quarter and district, terms used in the General Registers of Birth, Marriage and Death
If you are visiting the churchyard the Upper Graveyard Plan is an approximate finding guide. The areas equate to those in the index and in
the details but it has not been possible to site graves more exactly than this. The numerical order within plots may be of help but it is largely a
question of searching within the areas.
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The Lower Graveyard
The data here consists of one list. Any details known are recorded with the name.
There is no plan available for this graveyard, but generally, older graves are at the top (South View end) and more recent
burials at the bottom.
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The Upper and Lower Lawn Cemeteries
This consists of two plans with numbered plots and names and is self explanatory.
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The Leicester Road Cemetery
This consists of a plan with numbered plots and is self explanatory.
This is an open cemetery and the plan is correct at 2013.
? A Medical School?:
1740- 56:
John Fosdyce, son of Provost of Aberdeen, one of 20 children; know very little about him but
rest of family very famous in Scotland and in London (bankers; professor of philosophy;
Presbyterian divine; physician etc); connected with Dr Johnson, Bentham, Garrick etc.
Apprentices:
a)
younger brother William Fosdyce was apprentice to him 1743 before going to Edinburgh university,
became army surgeon, settled in London and was knighted (given gold medal for work on rhubarb!).
b)
nephew George Fosdyce 7took MA from Aberdeen University at age 14, was apprentice to John
Fosdyce 1750-54 before going to Edinburgh University; then settled in London (visited Leiden);
became FRS.
1756-64:
Maxwell Garthshore, born in Kirkcudbright 1732 son of clergyman; grammar school,
apprenticed to surgeon apothecary in Edinburgh at 14 years; army surgeon’s mate; 1756 (aged
24) settled at Uppingham succeeding through the aid of his cousin Robert Maitland a prosperous
London merchant to the practice of John Fosdyce; practised successfully in Uppingham for 8
years; graduated from Edinburgh in 1764 and left for London.
Apprentices:
a)
John Aikin, born Kibworth Harcourt 1747 son of clergyman; educated at home until 11 years; then
Warrington Academy ; then 1761 (14 years of age) was apprenticed to a surgeon and apothecary of
Uppingham until 1764 when he entered Edinburgh University.
1766-1771 (at least) William Forfitt:
apprentices:
a)
[Sir] Busick Harwood: born Newmarket 1750; educated at private school, apprenticed to apothecary
at Newmarket and then to William Forfitt surgeon of Uppingham 1766?1771. 1772, went to London
Hospital to study and then to India. [Cambridge Professor of Medicine]
Overseas Experience
c1780
Dr James Bell: graduated from Edinburgh, origin unknown; surgeon at sea exploring the
Polar regions; c 1780 came to Uppingham as apothecary and surgeon and stayed for rest of his
life – had eleven children by two wives; surgeon to workhouse (for fevers and bones)!
Member of Congregational Church.
c1780
Dr Pope: second surgeon on the Britannia and Master Surgeon on Man or War during French and
Spanish Wars; came to Uppingham c1780.
1777/83-89
Dr Francis Armstrong: born 1737, not sure where; served in Caribbean, especially St Vincent;
servant of duke of Portland; asking to go back to Caribbean in any position such as inspector of
hospitals there; died in Uppingham 1789.