Henry Tufnell [SEP] date of birth
Henry Tufnell
Henry Tufnell (1805 – 15 June 1854) was a British Whig politician. 
He was born the eldest son of William Tufnell of Chichester (MP for Colchester, 1806) and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1829.. Whilst at Oxford, he, along with George Cornewall Lewis, translated Otfried Müller's book "The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race" into English.
He was appointed secretary to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton when the latter
Monkton from the Tufnell family and his family owned the estate and lived at the Priory until it was bought by the Whitworth family in the 1920s. Crawhall was responsible for the redesigning of the church and the building of the new roof and chancel between 1871 and 1875.
A painting of villagers standing outside St.Mary's church by the landscape artist John Henry Leonard was sold at Christies in January 2009. It appears to date from the 1860s and may have been commissioned by Isaac Crawhall.
Nun Monkton was visited in