page_title: Romsey Abbey
section_title: Notable Burials
hierarchical_section_title: Romsey Abbey / Monastic History / Notable Burials
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo including the tomb of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (on the floor) in en:Romsey Abbey. Taken by me 2005-03-29.
context_page_description: Romsey Abbey is the name currently given to a parish church of the Church of England in Romsey, a market town in Hampshire, England. Until the dissolution it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery. The surviving Norman-era church is the town's outstanding feature, and is now the largest parish church in the county of Hampshire, since changes in county boundaries have led to the larger Christchurch Priory being now included in Dorset. The current vicar is the Reverend Thomas Wharton, who took up the post in September 2018.
context_section_description: Among the tombs housed in the present church are:
  Reportedly,  that of Prince Edmund Atheling  (c. 966 – c. 970), the eldest son  of  Edgar the Peaceful, King of Northumbria and Mercia,  by his third wife, Ælfthryth, the elder brother of King Æthelred the Unready (c. 968-1016) who died in infancy and was buried in the old Romsey Abbey.
  That of John and Grissell St Barbe, both died in 1658. The family acquired the abbey estate shortly after the dissolution and held it until 1723.
  That of Sir William Petty (1623-1687), in his day a noted English economist, scientist, philosopher, Fellow of the Royal Society and politician. He first came to prominence serving Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth in Ireland and, like many others, later served under King Charles II and King James II. Knighted in 1661, he became the great-grandfather of Prime Minister William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.
  That of John Latham (1740-1837), English physician, naturalist and ornithologist, one of the first to examine scientifically birds discovered in Australia. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1775,  took part in the creation of the Linnean Society, and in 1812, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  That of Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979). On being given his Earldom in 1947, Mountbatten had been granted the lesser title of Baron Romsey and he lived locally at Broadlands House. On 27 August 1979, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, and two others were assassinated by a bomb set by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, hidden aboard his fishing boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland. He was buried here following a full state funeral in Westminster Abbey. By request, his grave is aligned north-south, rather than the conventional east-west, so that he faces the sea where his wife, Edwina’s, ashes were scattered.
  Buried in the churchyard is Major General Sir Richard Harman Luce (1867-1952), an English surgeon, British Army officer and politician, who served for a time as MP for Derby in 1924 and later as Mayor of Romsey.
caption: Tombs of John and Grissell St Barbe and that of Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
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