Lucy Townsend was the incumbent's wife from 1836. She was a leading campaigner against slavery and she died in Thorpe in 1847.Clare Midgley, ‘Townsend , Lucy (1781–1847)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 30 July 2015 She is buried in a large fenced grave to the left of the entrance. The stone records that she "ceased to be mortal" in 1847. Her husband died later, and is buried here too.See pictures in commons
