George Anthony Legh Keck

Taken from a wall hanging in the church, and is from an engraving by Charles Tomkins

GEORGE ANTHONY LEGH KECK Esq of Bank Hall in the county of Lancaster and of Stoughton Grange in this township. He represented the county of Leicester in nine parliaments and the long continuance of this delegated trust sufficiently attests the confidence of his constituents during that most eventful period between the years 1797 and 1831. When uprooted thrones and desecrated altars convulsed other countries and endangered the safety of our own. Amidst such times he evinced an unshaken fidelity to his King his country and his God: and in 1831 relinquished all public duties save only the command of the Leicestershire Yeomanry Regiment which he had held from the date of its original formation in 1802.
He is remembered on the wall plaque (referenced as J3) in the monuments inside the church.
He died 4th September 1860 aged 86, and is buried in the church at Stoughton (floor slab J30)