Catherina Boevey
English philanthropist
Depiction of Boevey in
Westminster Abbey
"Flaxley the seat of Mrs Bovey", contemporary engraving by
Johannes Kip
published in
Robert Atkyns
' "The Ancient & Present State of Gloucestershire" (1712). The armorials above show within a widow's lozenge
escutcheon
Boevey
impaling
Riches, the latter appearing as:
Argent, three annulets gules
. The arms of Riches of Kent are generally given however as
Argent, three annulets azure
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1
]
and may have been here incorrectly tinted on the Kip print, published in monochrome
Catherina Boevey
(1669–1726) (or Bovey,
nee
Riches) (pronounced "Boovey"
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2
]
), was a philanthropist.
^
An index to the arms in The Visitations of Kent..., 2 vols., W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), (Harleian Society, vols. 74 & 75, 1923–1924) by John Blythe Dobson
^
Debrett's Peerage, 1968,
Crawley-Boevey baronets
, p.89