Bust of the Chambers in Derby Cathedral, attributed to Roubiliac.

 

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,the Countess of Exeter.

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 Bagneld of Derby and died some nine

years after her husband in April, 1735. 

The Exeter family, like the Devonshires and Montague had traditionally patronized Huguenot craftsmen; Louis Chron 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. 13

 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. Pa.ssavant, 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

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