Thursday, 5 December 2024

Death from a Broken Heart; Baron Farkas Kemény. (1797–1852) Kensal Green Cemetery

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  'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.                                  ...
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Friday, 15 November 2024

The Headhunter in the the Haymarket; Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930) Streatham Park Cemetery

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The Wellcome Collection has a heavily annotated copy of this (in)famous photograph of Major General Horatio Gordon Robley seated before his ...
Friday, 18 October 2024

The three burials of Captain Elton; Erle Godfrey Elton (1869-1899) Kensal Green Cemetery

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How many times was Captain Erle Godfrey Elton of the Black Watch buried? Some sources say he was buried on the battlefield of Magersfontein ...
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Wednesday, 2 October 2024

The Campo Santo of East London; St Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, Leyton

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At 43 acres St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery is relatively big by London standards, bigger than Abney Park, bigger than Brompton, bigger than ...
Monday, 29 April 2024

The woman in white; Caroline Graves ( c. 1830-1895) Kensal Green Cemetery

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  As a young man Collins probably had his romantic experiences those "intimacies" to which the Dictionary of National Biography ra...
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Friday, 26 April 2024

'Who hath no wife, he is no cuckold'; George Hill (1802-1864) Kensal Green Cemetery

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  Was George Hill as dull as his epitaph suggests? It is not unusual for memorial inscriptions to mention the grave occupant’s occupation bu...
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Thursday, 14 March 2024

Death at the Zoo; murder, suicide and drunken accidents in the first 75 years of London's Zoological Gardens

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Children of all ages will be Interested in the chatty and pleasant account of "Half Holidays at the Zoo," issued from the Westmins...
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