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sion he has remarked to the officials , that when it pleased Providence to call him , he would certainly be buried there . Some time since , it may be recollected that a German friend of the Duke ' s , named Count A . Von Schulenburg , died suddenly shortly after his arrival in this country , on a visit to his Royal Hig hness . The Duke was much affected by his death , ancl himself selected his grave in the Kensal Green cemetery ,
where a neat monument , enclosed in an iron railing , records his untimely decease . The number of private graves in this cemetery already exceeds 6000 , ancl each grave is calculated to hold ten coffins . Among the principal members of the nobility interred in private mausoleums and the catacombs , may be mentioned the Duchess of Roxburgh , the Duchess of Argyll , the Dowager Duchess of Leeds , the Marchioness of
Headfort , Baroness de Feucheres , Lord and Lady Spencer Churchill , Lord Howden , Earl Galloway , the Bishop of Quebec , Sir James Cockburn , & c . The French Court went into mourning for eleven days , for the late Duke of Sussex .
THE DUKE OP SUSSEX AND SIR ASTLEY COOPER . — " In the year 1830 , Sir Astley Cooper , who was already a member of the council of the Royal Society , was elected one of the Vice-Presidents . His colleagues in this distinguished office were Mr . Davies Gilbert , Mr . Lubbock , Mr . Rennie , Mr . Pond , and the Hon . Mr . Cavendish . His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , who was at this time the President
of the Society , suggested a plan by which each Vice-President was to take under bis particular superintendance all the business of the Society , which related to the department of science to which each respectivel y had devoted his attention . Sir Astley was nominated , by his Royal Highness , to preside over all matters connected with the medical science ; but the plan was found , I believe , to be impracticable . " ( Life of Sir A . C , by B . B . Cooper , vol . ii . p . 358 . )
THE DUKE OP SUSSEX ' FIRST MARRIAGE . —The following appeared in the Gentleman ' s Magazine for January , 1794 » : — " His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick was married to Lady Augusta Murray , lately , in Italy . On tlieir return to England , they had the banns published at St . George ' s Church , Hanover-square , on three successive Sundays , by the names of Augustus Frederick and Augusta Murray .
No titles were mentioned , and the clergyman who published the banns , and who afterwards married them on the Sth of December , 1793 , most probably thought that Frederick was the surname of the bridegroom , and he never suspected that he was a prince of the royal blood . Subsequent to the marriage in Italy , ancl after the repetition of the ceremony in England , the lady was delivered , by Dr . Thynne , of a son , whose VOL . I . I ) D
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sion he has remarked to the officials , that when it pleased Providence to call him , he would certainly be buried there . Some time since , it may be recollected that a German friend of the Duke ' s , named Count A . Von Schulenburg , died suddenly shortly after his arrival in this country , on a visit to his Royal Hig hness . The Duke was much affected by his death , ancl himself selected his grave in the Kensal Green cemetery ,
where a neat monument , enclosed in an iron railing , records his untimely decease . The number of private graves in this cemetery already exceeds 6000 , ancl each grave is calculated to hold ten coffins . Among the principal members of the nobility interred in private mausoleums and the catacombs , may be mentioned the Duchess of Roxburgh , the Duchess of Argyll , the Dowager Duchess of Leeds , the Marchioness of
Headfort , Baroness de Feucheres , Lord and Lady Spencer Churchill , Lord Howden , Earl Galloway , the Bishop of Quebec , Sir James Cockburn , & c . The French Court went into mourning for eleven days , for the late Duke of Sussex .
THE DUKE OP SUSSEX AND SIR ASTLEY COOPER . — " In the year 1830 , Sir Astley Cooper , who was already a member of the council of the Royal Society , was elected one of the Vice-Presidents . His colleagues in this distinguished office were Mr . Davies Gilbert , Mr . Lubbock , Mr . Rennie , Mr . Pond , and the Hon . Mr . Cavendish . His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , who was at this time the President
of the Society , suggested a plan by which each Vice-President was to take under bis particular superintendance all the business of the Society , which related to the department of science to which each respectivel y had devoted his attention . Sir Astley was nominated , by his Royal Highness , to preside over all matters connected with the medical science ; but the plan was found , I believe , to be impracticable . " ( Life of Sir A . C , by B . B . Cooper , vol . ii . p . 358 . )
THE DUKE OP SUSSEX ' FIRST MARRIAGE . —The following appeared in the Gentleman ' s Magazine for January , 1794 » : — " His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick was married to Lady Augusta Murray , lately , in Italy . On tlieir return to England , they had the banns published at St . George ' s Church , Hanover-square , on three successive Sundays , by the names of Augustus Frederick and Augusta Murray .
No titles were mentioned , and the clergyman who published the banns , and who afterwards married them on the Sth of December , 1793 , most probably thought that Frederick was the surname of the bridegroom , and he never suspected that he was a prince of the royal blood . Subsequent to the marriage in Italy , ancl after the repetition of the ceremony in England , the lady was delivered , by Dr . Thynne , of a son , whose VOL . I . I ) D