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unusual facts about Milton Abbey



Agostino Carlini

He is particularly noted for various church monuments, including a memorial to Lady Sophia Petty at All Saints' Parish Church, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and one commissioned by Joseph Damer in 1775 to commemorate his wife Caroline, which stands in the north transept of Milton Abbey in Dorset.

Viscount Milton

He was created Baron Milton of Shronell, County Tipperary in the Peerage of Ireland on 3 June 1753, Baron Milton of Milton Abbey, Dorset in the Peerage of Great Britain on 10 May 1762, and Viscount Milton of Milton Abbey and Earl of Dorchester on 18 May 1792.


see also

Earl of Dorchester

Damer had already been created Baron Milton, of Shronehill in the County of Tipperary, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1753 and Baron Milton, of Milton Abbey in the County of Dorset, in the Peerage of Great Britain, in 1762.