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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green, Kensington.
On 14th September 1836 Elizabeth Agneta Pole-Carew (age 45) died. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 24th January 1837 Joseph Sabine (age 66) died at his home in Mill Street, Hanover Square. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map] on 1st February 1837.
On 21st April 1843 Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex (age 70) died at Kensington Palace. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. Duke Sussex extinct.
On 12th May 1846 Robert Waller Otway 1st Baronet (age 76) died. He was buried in the northwest quadrant in the centre Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His son George (age 29) succeeded 2nd Baronet Otway of Brighthelmstone in Sussex.
On 5th June 1846 Elizabeth Bromley (age 27) died of tuberculosis in Paris [Map]. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 13th December 1848 John Ternouth (age 52) died of typhus. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His grave is marked by a Carrara marble stela with a classical relief of a grieving draped woman embracing an urn-topped pedestal. This may be one of his own works.
On 15th August 1855 Edward Seymour 11th Duke of Somerset (age 80) died at Somerset House 40 Park Lane. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His son Edward (age 50) succeeded 12th Duke Somerset, 10th Baronet Seymour of Berry Pomeroy. Jane Georgiana Sheridan Duchess Somerset (age 45) by marriage Duchess Somerset.
On 2nd July 1856 Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans (age 52) died at Dover Street. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 10th March 1859 Thomas Somers-Cocks (age 79) died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 3rd July 1859 Bishop Edward Maltby (age 89) died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Chapter 17. The funeral was on September 20 [1859], at the Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
Along the road leading to the chapel many hundreds of his private and professional friends, his neighbours among the tradespeople of Westminster, the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the servants of the Great Western Railway Company, had assembled, and, with his family, followed his body to its place of burial, in the grave of his father and mother1.
Note 1. A few weeks after Mr, Brunel's death, a meeting of his friends was held, when it was determined to raise some memorial to him. A statue was made by the late Baron Marochetti (age 54), and a site for it promised by the First Commissioner of Works; but it has not yet been erected.
Mr. Brunel's family, by the permission of the Dean of Westminster, have placed a memorial window in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey. Along the bottom of the window (which consists of two lights, each 23 feet 6 inches high and 4 feet wide, surmounted by a quatrefoil opening, 6 feet 6 inches across) is the Inscription, ‘IN MEMORY OF ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL, CIVIL ENGINEER. BORN APRIL 9, 1806. DEPARTED THIS LIFE, SEPTEMBER 15, 1859.' Over this are four allegorical figures (two in each light): Fortitude, Justice, Faith, and Charity. The upper part of the window consists of six panels, divided by a pattern work of lilies and pomegranates. The panels contain subjects from the history of the Temple. The three subjects in the western light represent scenes from the Old Testament—viz. the Dedication of the Temple by Solomon, the Finding of the Book of the Law by Hilkiah, and the Laying the Foundations of the Second Temple. The subjects in the eastern light are from the New Testament—viz. Simeon Blessing the Infant Saviour, Christ Disputing with the Doctors, and The Disciples pointing out to Christ the Buildings of the Temple. In the heads of each light are angels kneeling, and in the quatrefoil is a representation of Our Lord in Glory, surrounded by angels.
The work was placed in the hands of Mr. R. Norman Shaw, architect, who prepared the general design, arranged the scale of the various figures, and designed the ornamental pattern work. The figure subjects were drawn by Mr. Henry Holiday, and the whole design was executed in glass by Messrs. Heaton, Butler, & Bayne.
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On 19th November 1864 Edmund Molyneux (age 73) died at Monmartre in Paris where he was initially buried. His remains were subsequently removed to Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 2nd June 1869 Katherine Frances Champion (age 6) was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. Her address is given as 17 Harewood Square, Marylebone.
On 5th May 1877 John Stepney Cowell-Stepney 1st Baronet (age 86) died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His son Arthur (age 42) succeeded 2nd Baronet Cowell Stepney of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire.
On 6th December 1879 William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 5th Duke Portland (age 79) died unmarried at his London residence Harcourt House Cavendish Square Marylebone. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His first cousin once removed William (age 21) succeeded 6th Duke Portland, 7th Earl of Portland.
On 2nd March 1881 John Prescott Knight (age 78) died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 19th March 1881 William Gordon Cornwallis Eliot 4th Earl St Germans (age 51) died unmarried. He was buried near his mother Jemima Cornwallis Countess St Germans at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His brother Henry (age 46) succeeded 5th Earl St Germans, 6th Baron Eliot of St Germans in Cornwall.
On 22nd March 1883 Alfred Clint (age 76) died. He was buried in the same grave as his father, in Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 19th May 1887 Margaret Calder (age 70) died. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 20th January 1889 Edward Chichester 4th Marquess Donegal (age 89) died at St Leonards On Sea. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. His son George (age 66) succeeded 5th Marquess Donegal.
On 16th June 1894 William Calder Marshall (age 81) died at his home 115 Ebury Street, Chester Square [Map]. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map] in the same grave as his wife who had died seven years before.
On 27th December 1899 Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 40) died. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 10th February 1917 John William Waterhouse (age 67) died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 16th April 1918 John Christopher Willoughby 5th Baronet (age 59) died. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map]. Baronet Willoughby of Baldon House in Oxfordshire extinct.
In 1944 Esther Kenworthy (age 87) died. She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery [Map].
On 1st July 1857 William Pole Tylney Long Wellesley 4th Earl Mornington (age 69) died at Thayer Street Manchester Square Marylebone. He was buried at Catacomb B Kensal Green Cemetery. His son William (age 43) succeeded 5th Earl Mornington, 5th Viscount Wellesley of Dangan Castle.