FDA-A.495:4-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.495:4-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Gallery Window: St Wenceslaus (left) and St Pancras (right); Memorial to George Talbot Mount
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Stained glass memorial window
Comments
This window is dedicated to George Talbot Mount, who died in 1900.
He is described in the Eton Register as:
'Mount ma. (F.H.R. [indicating that his House Master was Francis Hay Rawlins]) GEORGE TALBOT. 3rd son of W. G. M. of Wasing Place, nr. Reading; 1884(2)-1889(3); New Coll. Oxf.; B.A.; 2nd Cl. Mods. 1891; 3rd Cl. Lit. Hum. 1893; Assistant Master at Eton 1894-1900; died Sept. 28, 1900.'
Light 1a: St Wenceslaus
Light 1b: St Pancras
Tracery light: A1
He is described in the Eton Register as:
'Mount ma. (F.H.R. [indicating that his House Master was Francis Hay Rawlins]) GEORGE TALBOT. 3rd son of W. G. M. of Wasing Place, nr. Reading; 1884(2)-1889(3); New Coll. Oxf.; B.A.; 2nd Cl. Mods. 1891; 3rd Cl. Lit. Hum. 1893; Assistant Master at Eton 1894-1900; died Sept. 28, 1900.'
Light 1a: St Wenceslaus
Light 1b: St Pancras
Tracery light: A1
Description
Inscription
Lettering on the banner which runs along the bottom of the design: ‘Mementote in Dūo Georgium Talbot Mount, qui abűt xxviii die mens: Septembris A.S.mdcccc.’ (Remember in the Second George Talbot Mount, who died on the 28th day of September A.S. [i.e. Year of the Saviour] 1900.)
Material
glass
Production
Organisation
C.E. Kempe & Co Ltd (Designer)
Date
c.1900-1910
