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English: St Mary Magdalene's Church, Richmond, Surrey. Memorial to Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet (d. 1749), of Richmond Green, a merchant and writer on trade who was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1729 and to his grandson Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (d. 1816), founder of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Arms of Decker: Argent, a demi-buck gules between his forelegs an arrow erected in pale or ( Thomas Wotton, The English Baronetage Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 4, 1741[1]) impaling Watkins Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or, the arms of Rev. Richard Watkins, Rector of Whichford, Warwickshire, whose daughter Henrietta Watkins married Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet. Listed in Burkes General Armory, 1884, as arms of Watkins of Badby House, Northamptonshire. Modern inscription on a tablet of stone superimposed on the base of the monument, possibly a restoration (perhaps placed here by the FitzWilliam Museum?):

"In the vault beneath were interred the remains of Sir Matthew Decker Bart. on the 25th of March 1749 and of his relict Lady Decker on the 12th of May 1759. Also of Catherine their daughter and wife of Richard 6th Viscount FitzWilliam of Mount Merrion in the County of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland. She died on the 8th of March 1786. The remains of Richard Viscount FitzWilliam son of the above-named Richard and Catherine were also interred here. He died on the 4th of February 1816 in the 71st year of his age and by his will founded and endowed the museum at Cambridge that bears his name"
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