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Most burials in the churchyard are of working people. Eight members of the Wood family are buried in this family tomb [14].

One notable name is that of Elizabeth Wood, who died in 1902 at the enviable age of 103 years and 9 months.

Perhaps the more interesting of the family here is Erskine Nicol, son-in-law of Thomas and Elizabeth Wood (he married Margaret Wood, his second wife, in 1865). Nicol was a Scottish figure and genre painter who became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1866. Nicol taught in Dublin, Ireland, from 1845–50, at the height of the Irish famine, and identified with the oppression of the Irish people and much of his work portrays the injustices inflicted upon the Irish population during the 19th century.

The 1871 census shows him to be living with Margaret as lodgers at 60 Marine Parade, Brighton and the signed picture below was taken by Lock & Whitfield Photographers of Kings Road, Brighton in 1878.

_{Erskine Nicol in 1878}

_{Nicol painting - Irish folk evicted during the famine.}

_{Nicol painting - 'Kept In'}