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Surname	Sephton	Alternative Surname
First Name	Daniel	Initial of Surname	S
Year of Birth/Baptism	1714	Flourished
Year of Death	1759
Biographical Details	The son of Henry Sephton, Gunnis considered him the best of the 18th-century Manchester statuaries. His monument to William Wright is a large architectural work, nearly 20 feet high, with a portrait-bust, and side consoles delicately carved with beetles, butterflies and flora (6). The tablet to Thomas Barron has a rococo cartouche against an obelisk (4), and another, to Sarah Jarvis, has a pyramid with an armorial shield above an inscription tablet (2). Sephton died on 11 January 1759, and was commemorated on the same tablet as his father in St Mary, Walton, near Liverpool. The epitaph describes him as ‘late of Manchester, eminent in carving’. His wife survived him and died in 1770. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 347-8; Colvin 1995, 857-8