Karslake monument, Little Malvern, Worcs

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Model of the grave monument of Charles Edward Karslake (1841-1873) and his wife Mary Sophia, née Morrell (1844-1934), in the churchyard at Little Malvern Priory, Worcestershire. The youngest son of the Rev William Heberden Karslake, rector of Meshaw in Devon, Charles graduated from Exeter College Oxford in 1864 and had set up as a coffee planter in Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) by the time of his marriage to Mary on 4 April 1867. Charles is known to have owned two coffee plantations in the hills west of Mt Pidurutalagala during the late 1860s and early 1870s: the Kalloo Oya estate in Ramboda, and the Harrow estate in Pundaluoya. The couple moved to Malvern in the early 1870s, perhaps in an attempt to treat the dysentry that resulted in Charles’ death on 22 November 1873. By 1881 Mary had moved to Graham Lodge in Hanley Castle, relocating to Malvern Link by 1911; she died at the Fairholme Nursing Home on Graham Rd, Malvern, on 2 August 1934. Photos taken on Huawei P30 Lite camera, processed in Agisoft Metashape.