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In Mansfield Park Dr Grant is appointed to an ecclesiastical position in the Abbey which
- then as now - was packed with monuments and memorials. There are many of particular
Georgian interest as we follow the fixed route around the Abbey.
In the North Aisle are George Canning (d. 1827) and Viscount Castlereagh (d. 1822) who
duelled over government policy, Lord Palmerston (Secretary at War from 1809 to 1828),
and Robert Peel (Home Secretary responsible for the Metropolitan Police force in 1829).
Westminster Abbey and St Margaret's Church in 1810.
View of the Bridge & Pagoda St James's Park Erected for the Grand Ju-
bilee in Celebration of the Peace Under the Direction of Sir Wm. Con-
greave Bart.
On the left, Abbot Islip's Chapel has memorials to Sir John Franklin (who fought at
Trafalgar and led Arctic expeditions in 1819 and 1823); Thomas Telford the engineer;
Humphrey Davy the chemist, and the actor John Philip Kemble.
In the South Transept is Poet's Corner. Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral,
but a plaque in her honour is here alongside Robert Southey, Robert Burns, Keats, Shelley,
Coleridge, Byron and many other writers.
Buckingham Palace from the bridge in St James's Park.
Following the route brings you into the Cloister and the Museum where there is a wax
effigy of Nelson. It was made in 1806 and is dressed in his genuine clothes. Lady Nelson
considered it most lifelike.
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