Karslake monument, Little Malvern, Worcs

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Model of the grave monument of Charles Edward Karslake and his wife Mary Sophia Morrell, situated in the churchyard at Little Malvern Priory, Worcestershire. The youngest son of Rev William Heberden Karslake, rector of Meshaw in Devon, graduated from Exeter College Oxford in 1864 and had established himself as a coffee planter in Ceylon by his marriage to Mary on April 4, 1867. Charles owned two coffee plantations west of Mt Pidurutalagala during the late 1860s and early 1870s: Kalloo Oya estate in Ramboda and Harrow estate in Pundaluoya. The couple moved to Malvern in the early 1870s, possibly seeking treatment for dysentery that ultimately led to Charles' death on November 22, 1873. By 1881 Mary had relocated to Graham Lodge in Hanley Castle; by 1911 she was living at Malvern Link and died at Fairholme Nursing Home on Graham Rd, Malvern, on August 2, 1934.