 It is now the largest parish church in the county and houses the tomb of Lord Mountbatten of Burma and of Sir William Petty FRS, the great English economist, scientist and philosopher.Mountbatten had been granted the lesser title of Baron Romsey in 1947 on being given his Earldom and lived locally at Broadlands House.On 27 August 1979, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, and two others were assassinated by a bomb set by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, hidden aboard his fishing boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland.