"Sacred to the memory of Mr Richard Shelton.
Richard sadly slit his throat in a "most determined manner" with a penknife in March 1845.
He was the steward for the Bisham Abbey Estates of the Vansittart family. He also kept a farm there.
Richard was executor of the will of Bisham inn landlord Thomas Smith 1833. For more see here.
There were multiple other Sheltons involved in farming at Bisham during the 1800s.
A "Mr Shelton" farmer near Marlow was reported in the Bucks Gazette 28th August 1830 (British Library Archives, accessed via the BNA) to have slipped when working a threshing machine and sustained injuries so serious he had to have an arm amputated above the elbow as a result. The threshing machine belonged to a Mr Mosse, likely John Moss of Marlow who made and hired such equipment.
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