Location | North-East corner of South Street and the West section of Ockenden Lane. |
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Side inscription | IN MEMORY OF CAPTAIN C.W. SERGISON SCOTS GUARDS AND MICHAEL DELAVAL SERGISON ERECTED BY THEIR SISTER LADY GLANUSK |
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MDFCTA number | 1938 |
Type and size | Trough 1d 6ft 6in |
Original location | Sussex. Cuckfield |
Date erected | 25 March 1913 |
Comments | The gift of Lady Glanusk in memory of her brothers Captain Charles and Michael Sergison. Cost £64.14.0. Captain Charles Warden Sergison (25 November 1867, London - 20 January 1911, Cuckfield). Michael Delavel Sergison (1873, Cuckfield - 1888, Eton College). Editha Elma Sergison (1871, Cuckfield - 19 April 1938). She married Joseph Henry Russell Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, son of Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk, on 6 August 1890. All three were children of Major Warden Sergison (13 July 1835 - 16 July 1888). Captain Sergison, retiring after fifteen years in the army, was made a J.P. and Chairman of the Cuckfield Urban District Council. He settled in the new Slaugham Place in 1902 and leased Cuckfield Park to Mr. Louis Breitmeyer, a benefactor to the village. |