Seemingly, Sir Oliver Oglander, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, who died in 1536, with his son in the niche above. It seems that Sir Oliver picked up the knight in armour, carved in oak, during his travels on the continent, thinking that it would do for his own monument in due course. Clearly not bothered that this sort of armour was probably a bit obsolete when it was carved, never mind when it was put up in the Isle of Wight. Various other Oglanders nearby.
In the centre aisle a rather sad memorial set in the floor to one Isaac Newman and his wife, all of whom, I think, died in the eighteenth century. He went first, then his wife a few months later, and a few days after giving birth to a child who survived for a few weeks.
Another memorial to one the Reverend Richard Palmer M.A., who died in 1763 aged 62, presumably some relative of the Reverend James Palmer M.A. (Oxon) who died about a hundred years later and was memorialised as noticed at reference 1.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/back-to-bembridge.html.
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