Manor of Denbury

The mural monument of Captain Joseph Taylor is in Denbury Church[3] sculpted by John Weston[4] of Exeter,[5] is in the shape of a grey obelisk on the top part of which is sculpted a portrait medallion, and on the lower part a relief-sculpted anchor and other naval symbols and several canon which appear to lie behind the obelisk, with an inscribed sarcophagus below.

[7] Joseph Taylor (died 1746) was a Member of Parliament for Ashburton 1739-41 and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and as a law student at the Middle Temple.

As her surviving correspondence reveals she was "a cultured and intelligent woman, who had strong opinions of her own concerning not only the running of her life but also on the subjects of books and literature".

[22] His son was Maj-Gen Thomas William Taylor (1782-1854), CB, of West Ogwell House, an officer of the Honourable East India Company at Madras, and later Lt-Gov of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and a Groom of the Bedchamber to King William IV, whose mural monument survives in Denbury Church.

Walter's grandfather was Matthew Curtis (1807–1887) of Thornfield in the parish of Heaton Mersey, Lancashire, the leading manufacturer of cotton-spinning machinery in Britain and thrice Mayor of Manchester.

His coat of arms (Per saltire argent and azure two horse's heads erased in pale gules and in fess as many fleurs-de-lys of the first[28] with inescutcheon of pretence for Master Azure, a fess embattled between three griffin's heads erased or[34]) is sculpted on a stone tablet above the inner entrance of the gatehouse.

His daughter is Mrs Tessa Carol Amies (living 2003), a trustee of the Parish Lands Charity of Denbury.

[38] In 2017 Denbury Manor House is the home of Timothy Roger Howe (born 1951) a banker and fund-manager with Singer & Friedlander.