The Monument to Thomas Chambers and his wife, Margaret.
Put up in All Saints, Derby in 1737,
at the request of their youngest daughter, Hannah Sophia nee Chambers, the Countess of Exeter.
This work has been attributed to Louis Francois Roubiliac.
see -
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/30695656.pdf
The inscription on the monument states that Thomas Chambers was a London merchant who died in December 1726; his wife, Margaret was the daughter of John Bagnold of Derby and died some nine years after her husband in April, 1735.
"Under this marble lyes Interred Thomas Chambers Esquire Merchant and Citizen of London,Son of John Chambers late of Derby Gentleman deceasd. He Marryed Margaret the only Daughter of John Bagnold of the same, gentleman deceased by whom he had Issue, Thomaswho dyed young, Arabella who Marryed William Bates of Foston Esquire, and Hannah Sophia who Marryed the Right Honorable the Earl of Exeter. He departed this life at Bristol,the tenth of December, being his birth day, Anno Dom 1726, aged Sixty Six".
The Exeter family, like the Devonshires and Montagues had traditionally patronized Huguenot craftsmen; Louis Cheron and Rene Cousin, the gilder, assisted with the decorative painting at Burghley in the 1690's and the gatesmith Jean Tijou worked there in the same decade.
A collection of bills addressed to the Countess of Exeter, 17k9 to 175k, shows that this tradition of Huguenot patronage was continued, the collection includes accounts from the Huguenot jewellers, Peter Dutens and S. Passavant, the haberdashers Peter Galliard, and Mettayer & Co., the fanmaker,Phillip Margas, and the cabinet-maker, Robert Tymperon.
This essay forms part of a study on the early Monuments either by or with the participation of Roubiliac prior to the unveiling of his statue of Handel at Vauxhall Gardens in 1738
Exeter House sat on the bank of the River Derwent. It was originally built around 1640 and known as Bagnall (Bagnold) House after its first owner, although it was extended and altered in later years and demolished in 1854.
In 1724 the property was
inherited by Hannah Sophia the daughter of Thomas Chambers, whose family had added to the
grounds by purchasing land on the opposite bank of the Derwent which was
developed into pleasure grounds for the house. His daughter married Brownlow
Cecil in the same year, 1724, who had by then inherited the title of 8th Earl
of Exeter, and from whom the house then took its name.
Exeter House, No. 1, Full Street, Derby was the house occupied for three days and two nights by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745 where the decision was made to draw back .
https://www.derbyshireas.org.uk/DM21-01.pdf
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For a portrait of their daughter Hannah Sophia see
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