 | John Aikin - Biography - 1802 - 686 pages
...London, in January, 1728-9, in the tfothycar of his age. lie was interred with great funeral solemnity in Westminster -abbey, where a monument was erected...to his memory by Henrietta duchess of Marlborough. To this lady, -who is said to have entertained a most romantic regard for him, he left the bulk of... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...and cataracts produced total blindness. He died in January, 1728-9, and was interred with great pomp in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected...to his memory, by Henrietta Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he had bequeathed the principal part of his fortune, without any regard to his relations and... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 896 pages
...of which wound he died on the sixth of June, 16'73: liis body was afterwards brought to England, and buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. They bad issue, James Hamilton, who became sixth Earl of Abercorn, &c. but he did not succeed to this... | |
 | Biography - 1819 - 196 pages
...January 1728-9, in the 68th year of his age. He was interred with great solemnity in Westminster-abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough. To this lady, who is said to have entertained a most romantic regard for him, he left the bulk of his... | |
 | John Watkins - 1821 - 1570 pages
...court, he retired to a farm at 'Chertsey, where he died, July 28. 1667. His remains were deposited in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by George duke of Buckingham. Dr. Johnson places Cowley at the head of metaphysical poets ; but though... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...the common pleas : which office he executed with great abilities and integrity. He died in 1598 ; and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. He was a learned man, and a patron of literature. He was the author of Reports in the common pleas,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...the common-pleas ; which office he executed with great abilities and integrity. He died in 1598, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. He was a learned man, and a patron of literature. He was the author of Reports in the Common Pleas,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...place in January 172У, in the sixtieth year of his age. He was interred with great funeral solemnity in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected...to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough. To this lady, who is said to have had a most romantic regard for him, he left the bulk of his fortune,... | |
 | John Burke - Baronetage - 1831 - 656 pages
...Dorset, and secondly, to Henry Poole, Esq. His lordship rf. in IMS, and notwithstanding his disgrace, was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory. He was *. by his eldest son, JAMES CRANFIELD, second Earl, who m. Anne, third daughter andco-heiress,... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...enjoy hie mixed fortune, as he was carried oft' by a disease in his bladder in bis fiftyfifth year. He was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Morton, bishop of Durham. The social character of Casaubon was that of a modest, candid, upright man,... | |
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This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation... 
