James Sartre

James Sartre, clergyman of Westminster Abbey, was buried in the south transept of the church on 5th September 1713. He has no monument or gravestone. He was a native of Montpellier in France and had a brother Francis. He was ordained by the bishop of London in 1684 and was naturalized the following year. In 1688 he was installed as a prebendary at the Abbey and also was rector of Mixbury in Oxfordshire and of Turweston. Jonathan Swift the writer records dining at Mr Sartre's "delicious house and garden" in the cloisters of the Abbey (the house was destroyed in the blitz of 1941). In the Abbey he officiated at the funeral of Charles St Evremond in 1703.  In 1704 he married Dorothy, the sister of the famous Joseph Addison, and died aged 64. She was buried near him on 10th March 1750. They seem to have had no children.