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Catherine <I>Barton</I> Conduitt

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Catherine Barton Conduitt

Birth
Brigstock, East Northamptonshire Borough, Northamptonshire, England
Death
20 Jan 1740 (aged 60)
Hursley, City of Winchester, Hampshire, England
Burial
Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England Add to Map
Plot
Nave (west)
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English Homemaker. Known for overseeing the running of the household of her uncle, scientist Isaac Newton. She was reputed to be the source of the story of the apple inspiring Newton's work on gravity, and his papers came to her on his death. She was remarked upon by several men to be beautiful, witty and clever. She was known as a brilliant conversationalist, and attracted the admiration of such famous figures as Jonathan Swift and Voltaire. Catherine was rumoured to have been the mistress of the poet and statesman Charles Montagu. She later married politician John Conduitt in 1717 and birthed her only child also named Catherine in 1721.
English Homemaker. Known for overseeing the running of the household of her uncle, scientist Isaac Newton. She was reputed to be the source of the story of the apple inspiring Newton's work on gravity, and his papers came to her on his death. She was remarked upon by several men to be beautiful, witty and clever. She was known as a brilliant conversationalist, and attracted the admiration of such famous figures as Jonathan Swift and Voltaire. Catherine was rumoured to have been the mistress of the poet and statesman Charles Montagu. She later married politician John Conduitt in 1717 and birthed her only child also named Catherine in 1721.

Inscription

Translated from Latin to English.

John Conduitt Esq. wished his remains to be placed opposite this spot, near to the ashes of the great Newton, to whom he was linked by ties of affinity. Because of the sweetness of his presence, the honesty of his character, the pleasantness of his disposition, and, that virtue in which above all others he excelled, his philanthropy, as lately he was the delight of his friends, so now he is the cause of their very great grief and sense of loss. He took to wife Catherine Barton, a most excellent woman, by whom he had one daughter, named after his wife. This monument, destined by the most sorrowful widow for her dearest husband, was ordered to be dedicated to the memory of both parents, so richly deserving of her, by their surviving daughter, wife of the Hon. John Wallop, eldest son of the Rt. Hon. John, Viscount Lymington. He died on 23rd May 1737 aged 49, she on 20th January 1739, aged 59.

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