Anthony Ettrick

{{Short description|English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | spouse = | honorific_suffix = MP | image = | office = Member of Parliament <br /> for Christchurch | predecessor = George Fulford | successor = William Ettrick | term_start = 1685 | term_end = 1689 | name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1622|11|15|df=y}} | party = Tory | birth_place = | relations = | children = William Ettrick | alma_mater = | occupation = Magistrate | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | caption = | death_date = {{death date and age|1703|10|5|1622|11|15|df=y}} }} '''Anthony Ettrick''' (15 November 1622 – 5 October 1703) was an English politician.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ETTRICK, Anthony (1622-1703), of the Middle Temple and Holt Lodge, Dorset. {{!}} History of Parliament Online|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ettrick-anthony-1622-1703|access-date=2021-12-22|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref>

== Personal life and career == Anthony Ettrick was a magistrate and recorder of Poole. He served as a magistrate in a controversial case, where he sentenced the Duke of Monmouth to death in the Tower of London after the Monmouth Rebellion against the King.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Character Notes on the Notables in Wimborne Minster |url=https://www.wimbornecommunitytheatre.co.uk/character-notes-on-the-notables-buried-in-wimborne-minster/ |access-date=2026-05-19 |website=Wimborne Community Theatre |language=en-GB}}</ref> His son, William Ettrick, replaced him in Parliament.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.wimbornehistorytrail.uk/easyread/Anthony-Ettrick+Logo-f-10.pdf |title=Wimborne Minster History Trail, Anthony Ettrick}}</ref>

Ettrick's largest legacy is his coffin, which has become part of the folklore in Wimborne, earning him the nickname of "The Man in the Wall." He notably fought Wimborne Minster authorities on his place of burial, resolved through his burial neither inside nor outside of Minster. He decided to have a coffin crafted, believing that he would die in 1693, which is etched into the side of his tomb and later corrected for his actual date of death, 1703.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Burnell |first=F. S. |date=1947 |title=The Man in the Wall |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1257147 |journal=Folklore |volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=312–317 |issn=0015-587X}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Ettrick's Tomb in Wimbourne Minster is currently located in a recess in the Minster Church.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Treves |first=Frederick |url=http://archive.org/details/highwaysandbywa00penngoog |title=Highways and byways in Dorset |last2=Pennell |first2=Joseph |last3=Rogers |first3=Bruce |last4=Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC |date=1906 |publisher=London ; New York : Macmillan |others=University of Michigan}}</ref>

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== External Links == [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3711650 Anthony Ettrick v. John Pike], a court case kept by the National Archives.{{DEFAULTSORT:Ettrick, Anthony}} Category:1622 births Category:1703 deaths Category:17th-century English politicians Category:English MPs 1685–1687 Category:People from Wimborne Minster Category:People from Christchurch, Dorset Category:Tory MPs (pre-1834)