The descendants in England own this plaster cast
Francesco Jerace, who sculpted the tomb of Mary Somerville 1873, also created this medallion of his parents

IN REMEMBRANCE OF/ ANNE SUSANNA LLOYD,/ FOR FIFTY-SIX YEARS THE WIFE OF LEONARD HORNER ESQr OF LONDON, F.R.S../ SHE DIED IN FLORENCE ON THE 22d OF MAY 1862,/ IN THE 76th YEAR OF HER AGE./ - / SHE CAME FOR THE RECOVERY OF HER HEALTH, WITH/ HER HUSBAND AND DAUGHTERS SUSAN AND JOANNA/ AFTER THEY AND FOUR MARRIED DAUGHTERS FROM WHOM SHE HAD BEEN PARTED IN ENGLAND/ HAD BEEN BLESSED BY THE UNSPEAKABLE COMFORT OF HER RECOVERY WHICH ENABLED HER TO ENJOY/ BEAUTIFUL FLORENCE FOR SEVEN MONTHS,/ IT PLEASED GOD TO AFFLICT THEM BY HER/ ALMOST SUDDEN DEATH/ "THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY; BLESSED BY THE NAME OF THE LORD" [Job1.21]/ "THUS DO WE WALK WITH HER, AND KEEP UNBROKEN/ THE BOND WHICH NATURE GIVES,/ THINKING THAT OUR REMEMBRANCE, THOUGH UNSPOKEN,/ MAY REACH HER WHERE SHE LIVES" //  MARITI VOTUM PER FILIAS SOLUTUM/ THIS MEDALLION IS PLACED HERE BY THE DESIRE OF/ LEONARD HORNER F.R.S./ HE WAS PREPARING TO REVISIT THE GRAVE/ WHEN HE DIED LOVING - AND BELOVED/ IN THE 80TH YEAR OF HIS AGE IN LONDON/ 5 MARCH 1864/ AND WAS BURIED IN THE CEMETERY AT WOKING/ THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH/ GAL. V.22/

Anna Susanna Lloyd Horner, daughter of a Yorkshire landowner, and her circle are of great interest. Alyson Price notes that her daughters Joanna and Susan Horner accompanied her to Florence, where her husband, Leonard Horner, who is mentioned in Hengist Horne's New Spirit of the Age, translated Pasquale Villari's book on Savonarola. Earlier he had worked with Lord Ashley and Thomas Southwood Smith (who is buried in Sector C, C3) against the employment of children in mines and factories. Susan wrote a diary and the two daughters together published a travel guide to Florence, filled with historical and artistic information. They were also friends with Mary Somerville and her two daughters, Martha and Mary, who were to commission a statue of their mother for her tomb in Naples. The Horners had already had their mother's tomb constructed; now they commissioned the young Francesco Jerace from Calabria and working in Naples, to also do the medallion portrait of their mother, as well as his sculpting the life sized effigy of Mary Somerville. In Holman Hunt's portrait of his wife and in this sculpture of Anne Susanna we can see motives of Etruscan and Egyptian jewellery, in the case of Mrs Horner, of the ourbouros featured on her bracelet. The plaster cast of this medallion is owned by the family in London. We know from Susan's diary that they planted a white rose on her mother's tomb from the Torrigiani Garden. We asked Dr Vieri Torrigiani Malaspina for such a rose and he planted a particularly lovely one there.

          

  
John Brett, 'Aurora Leigh'

TO THE PRAISE OF/ HIS LOVE/ WHO GAVE PEACE IN LIFE/ AND JOY IN DEATH TO/ CHARLOTTE EMILIA PLUMPTRE/ THE BELOVED DAUGHTER OF/ WILLIAM H.W. PLUMPTRE/ RECTOR OF EASTWOOD NOTTS ENGLAND/ BORN MARCH 27 1843/ TAKEN HOME FROM BELLOSGUARDO FLORENCE/ NOVEMBER 22 1872/ THEY HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES AND HAVE/ MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB/ THEREFORE THEY ARE BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD/ AND SERVE HIM DAY AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE

D27/ THOMAS HILL SPENCER/ ENGLAND/
An elderly Englishman in Florence who has come from Chawton House in Hampshire, famous for its connections with Jane Austen, as it was inherited by her brother, Edward Austen Knight, and their mother, Cassandra and she lived in its cottage for the last eight years of her life and from where she revised and published her novels.

       

    
                                      

    

    

   
Daniel Willard Fiske's photographs at Cornell of the Villa Landor in San Domenico

Born in Warwick, Walter Savage Landor is of the same generation as Keats, Shelley and Byron, but outlived them. His childhood love, the daughter of an Earl, and sister of another, the Honourable ROSE WHITWORTH AYLMER, is buried in India, 1800, at 20. In 1910, BACSA (British Association of Cemeteries in South Asia), tells us, Walter Savage Landor's epitaph was added to her tomb:

White Silence

Ah, what avails the sceptred race!
Ah, what thy form divine!
What every virtue, every grace!
Rose Aylmer, all were thine.

Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
May weep, but never see,
A night of memories and sighs
I consecrate to thee.

Landor romantically sought to participate in the Peninsula battles against Napoleon as a volunteer. Having lost his childhood sweetheart to fever in India, while others, including 'Ianthe', rejected him, he proposed marriage to Julia Thuillier, the daughter of a bankrupt Swiss banker whom he met at a dance in Bath, the marriage an unhappy one. They first lived at Llanthony Abbey in Wales, then came to Italy. He wrote Gebir, exquisite quatrains and, in prose, Imaginary Conversations, the finest being the intensely feminist Pericles and Aspasia. Pastor Luigi Santini wrote: 'An aristocrat, a Republican and a rebel, Landor left England for Florence in 1821, and arrived with a full-fledged reputation as an artist: his poems and prose attest to his great classical learning and his epigrams are forceful and moving. He was restless and eccentric, changed residence several times. Also extravagant and generous, he succeeded in amusing the Florentines (when he didn't terrify them) with his wit. In 1835 he bequeathed his Villa Gherardesca home to his son, Arnold, and returned to London, only to reappear in Florence in 1858. Finally, turned out by his wife and family, like a mad King Lear, he found refuge for a while with the compassionate Isa Blagden (Sector B, B42), admired by the young American KATE FIELD, but finished his days in poverty, in lodgings arranged for him by Robert Browning, in via della Chiesa, then the haunt of artists, under the care of ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING's former maid, ELIZABETH (LILY) WILSON. A leader of the early English Romantic movement, his literary production was considerable. He was a fervent supporter of the Italian cause, to which the Brownings introduced him, and raised funds for the 'Garibaldini'.  He lived to a ripe old age, all but forgotten by the younger generation, but his name, as Swinburne wrote for his tombstone, is now forever united with that of Florence, his chosen home'. [See Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden Ring, pp. 38-53.] He collected Tuscan 'Primitive' paintings before Bernard Berenson did so. He was also a great lover of landscape gardening, not liking gardens to be too neat, too precise. His wife (jealous of Rose Aylmer?) did not attend his funeral and a stone was placed on his tomb that was so cheap it disintegrated and was replaced in 1946. His son Arnold (1819-1871) is buried in a magnificent tomb with a full-size sculpture of Walter's shrewish wife, Julia, on top of it in Sector F, F128, for which she must have paid a fortune. Later Professor Fiske of Cornell, the great Italian and Icelandic scholar, would acquire his villa (now the School of Music in San Domenico, Fiesole) and carefully photograph it as it was. For which see Patrick J. Stevens, 'Jennie's Gift' and Kristìn Bragadottìr, William Morris and Iceland. We are profoundly grateful for Jean Field's gift to us of the many volumes of Walter Savage Landor's writings, which we carried to his tomb in 2007, and to that of ROSA MADIAI (F128), next to it, her imprisoned husband FRANCESCO MADIAI being the subject of WSL's last 'Imaginary Conversation', these now shelved in the Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei'.

 

A PERPETUARE LA MEMORIA/ DI SALVATORE FERRETTI/ LA MOGLIE I FIGLI ED AMICI INGLESI/ CHE TANTO LO AMARONO/ QUESTO MONUMENTO ERESSERO// SALVATORE FERRETTI/ NACQUE IN FIRENZE IL 15 SETTEMBRE 1817/ DA OPEROSA E SANTA CARITA SPIRIATO/ NEL SOCCORRERE AI MISERI SPESE LA VITA/ NELLA OSPITALE INGHILTERRA/ DOVE VENT'ANNI DIMORO'/ PRESO DE DESIDERIO DELLA PATRIA DILETTA/ RACCOLSE IN ASILI I FANCIULLI/ DA SNATURATI GENITORI VENDUTI/ LE FIGLIE DEGLI INFELICI CHE IN ESILIO LANGUIVANO/ CACCIATI DALL'ITALIA DIVISA/ IN OPERA DI TANTA MISERICORDIA/ DA PIE PERSONE LARGAMENTE SOCCORSO/ E DOPO CHE A LIBERATA L'ITALIA RISORSE/ TORNATO IN FIRENZE/ APRI FRA ORFANE CASA DI RIFUGIO E DI EDUCAZIONE/ QUI ARRIVATO DALLA FEDE IN CRISTO SALVATORE/ DALL'AFFETTO DEI SUOI E DEGLI AMICI CONFORTATO/ MORI' 14 MAGGIO 1874

This Italian Protestant, exiled to England for twenty years for his faith, founded an orphanage there for the ragged Italian children he saw begging in the streets, especially rescuing the young girls driven by poverty to prostitute themselves. For his music: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/c/t/octhascn.htm. With the Risorgimento he returned to Florence and founded another educational orphanage which still exists in the Piazza Massimo d'Azeglio, its villa given by a member of the Protestant Baldelli Walker family who have so many burials here (see, for example, F14/ BIANCA [WALKER] BALDELLI). Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.264, gives letter from US Consul George P. Marsh enclosing a Ferretti pamphlet. His English friends arranged his burial in the Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery. The missing lead letters of its inscription have been replaced by Roma who beg now in the streets of Florence and who attend Alphabet School in the Cemetery on Sundays.

  

                  
Villino Trollope, Thomas, Fanny,    The day 13 April 1865/ died in this house/ Theodosia Garrovv-Trollope/ 
Bice, Theodosia                                  who wrote in English with an Italian spirit/ of the struggle and the triumph of Liberty

THEODOSIAE TROLLOPE/ T. ADOLFI TROLLOPE CONIUGIS/ QUOD MORTALE FUIT/ HIC IACET/ OBITUM EIUS FLEVERUNT OMNES/ QUANTUM AUTEM FIERI MERUIT/ VIR EUGUI SCRIPTORES/ SCIT SOLUS/ JOSEFE GARROW ARMr FILIA/ APUD TORQEY IN AGRORUM DEVON ANGLORUM NATA/ FLORENTIAE NOMEN AGENS LUSTRUM/ AD PLURES DIVINAE . . ./ MENSES APRILES A.D. 1865

When an invalid child in Torquay, she had known

    
Auguste Hervieu                  Villino Trollope             

FRANCESCAE TROLLOPE/ QUOD MORTALE FUIT/ HIC IACET/ . . . / MEMORIA/ NULLUM MARMOR QUAERIT/ APUD STAPLETON/ IN AGRO SOMERSET ANGLORUM/ A.D. 1780 NATA/ FLORENTIAE/ TUMULUM A.D.1863/ NACTA EST

On 28 December 1827, the ship 'Edward' had set sail from the Port of London for the Port of New Orleans. On board were Frances Trollope, 40, Abolitionist, entrepreneur, writer, and the mother of Cecilia Trollope, 12, Emily Trollope, 10, Henry Trollope, 14, all English, Frances Wright, 28, American, and August Hervieu, 23, French. Frances Wright, associated with Lafayette, had invited the Trollopes to Nashoba where she had a settlement for the education of Negro slaves. Auguste Hervieu, a brilliant young artist, was the children's tutor and companion. With them also were Hester Rust and William Abbott, their servants. Often Hervieu had to sell his art to feed and house them all'. In Cincinatti she had engaged the young B32/ HIRAM POWERS to do Dante's Commedia in wax, starting his career as a sculptor. Pastore Luigi Santini wrote of her presence in Florence: 'She was the matriarch of a clan of writers; herself, two sons and two daughters-in-law. She arrived in Florence with her son Thomas Adolphus in 1843 and took up residence in Piazza Santa Croce, immediately entering into friendly relations with notables of the Court and the British community. In 1849 she moved with her son and daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow to a little house, Villino Trollope, in Piazza Barbano (now Indipendenza). She dedicated herself to the theatre, organized Anglo-Florentine social life, and wrote prolifically, and her house became a meeting place and obligatory reference point even for such writers as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Thackeray. Her son's autobiography, What I Remember (London, 1887), is a window on cosmopolitan and cultivated Florence'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Milton_Trollope; Frances Trollope, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; Iron Chain and Golden Ring;

In John Brett's painting of Aurora Leigh you can just glimpse the Jewish Cemetery nestled against the wall to the left.
               
Florence from Bellosguardo, Hebrew Cemetery to left, beneath wall                     Isa Blagden                      Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India

WhiteSilence

O'er the old tower, like red flame curled
Which leapeth sudden to the sky
Its emblem hues all wide unfurled
Upsprings the flag of Italy

Its emblem hues! the brave blood shed
The true life blood by heroes given,
The green palms of the martyred dead,
The snowy robes they wear in Heaven.
. . .

My Florence, which so fair doth be
A dream of beauty at my feet
While smiles above that dappled sky
While glows around that rip'ning wheat

As fair, as peaceful and as bright
Art thou as she we hear came down
From Heaven in bridal robes of light
Thy new Jerusalem St. John!

  

    
Photograph, Frederick Hollyer

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                                                          Fanny/ Waugh/ Holman Hunt/ Died in Florence/ December 20 1866

1. Blessed are the pure in heart  2. In dear and grateful remembrance of CYRIL BENONI HOLMAN HUNT born in Florence Oct 27 1866 died in Bridport  25 July 1934

 

     

When at Fiesole, I painted a damsel as a Tuscan straw-plaiter of the type of gentle features peculiar to the cities of the Apennines 

page: 205

 

As the marble carver now made it clear that his chiselling of the monument to my wife would never be brought to a conclusion, I took up his tools and finished the work, to the best of my power and departed from the city of flowers, which had been so sad a resting-place to me. Occasionally I made hasty sketches for my infant son at home; notwithstanding their slightness they may stand as records of passing interest.

He also discussed the Brownings at length (see passages given above), and he chose to place his wife's tomb next to Robert's wife, pages. 96-96. He then married his wife's sister, Edith, abroad, as this was forbidden in the Church of England's Table of Kindred and Affinity, so that she could raise Cyril Benoni.

         
Holman Hunt, Self Portrait, Uffizi        Holman Hunt painting 'Scapegoat'                                  Cyril Benoni Hunt                                 Cyril Benoni Hunt, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

     

In 1860, posing with her son Penini, she could still smile.

The last photograph taken in Rome show her with emaciated deathhead, despite the crinoline and curls. In 1861, the year of her death, we see a prematurely aged Corinne in front of a painted backdrop of Rome's Colosseum (Arabella II.533). She was only fifty-five, though pretending to the even younger forty-five, and having packed into those years the writing of an epic poem longer than Homer's Odyssey, marriage, and a son. In May of that year, Hans Christian Andersen visited them, commenting on how ill Elizabeth looked (Arabella II.536). Her last poem, 'North and South', was about him, for the children played with Robert his Pied Piper of Hamelyn, processing through the rooms, and listened to Andersen's Ugly Duckling. Robert felt Elizabeth's poetic gift had ended, saying to her brother George in a letter written from Asolo, 22 October, 1889, 'the publication of "Aurora Leigh" preceded by five years the death of its writer - who was never likely to produce such another work', he being her literary agent during their marriage and following her death. But between these two dates, 1860-1861, is also the publication of her poem, 'A Musical Instrument', illustrated by Frederick, Lord Leighton who would next design her tomb.

MARGARET FULLER, guest and friend, and the model following her death by drowning in the shipwreck of the 'Elizabeth', for the character and the inspiration for poem, Aurora Leigh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fuller; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento; 'Margaret Fuller', Laurel Garland

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE writer, Abolitionist, friend, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, B8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe; Florence's 'English' Cemetery and the Abolition of Slavery; Iron Chain, Golden Ring

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sculptress of the tombs for ADMIRAL PELLEW and DAVID LYON HERBERT E48: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licie_de_Fauveau; Isa Blagden, 'Félicie de Fauveau'; 'Félicie de Fauveau', Laurel Garland: Women of the Risorgimento; Silvia Mascalchi, 'Due Sepolture al Cimitero 'degli Inglesi', La Citta e il Libro III.

 

We could also mention a third sculptress, the Black and Native American EDMONIA LEWIS, whose works are included with Hiram Powers' in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

 
 

Contemporary Photograph in the Diary of Susan Horner, 1861-1862. See entries for Horner and Zileri family members.

         
Greek Slave                   Last of her Tribe                                  America

WhiteSilence Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'Hiram Powers' Greek Slave' 1850

They say Ideal Beauty cannot enter
The house of anguish. On the threshold stands
An alien Image with the shackled hands,
Called the Greek Slave: as if the sculptor meant her,
(That passionless perfection which he lent her,
Shadowed, not darkened, where the sill expands)
To, so, confront men’s crimes in different lands,
With man’s ideal sense. Pierce to the centre,
Art’s fiery finger! - and break up erelong
The serfdom of this world!  Appeal, fair stone,
From God’s pure heights of beauty, against man’s wrong!
Catch up in thy divine face, not alone
East griefs but west, - and strike and shame the strong,
By thunders of white silence, overthrown!

B58/ KALIMA NADEZHDA DE SANTIS/ NUBIA/RUSSIA/

     
Rosellini and Champollion Expedition to Egypt and Nubia

'Zdes' pokoitsja telo/ negritjank Kalimy/ vo Sv. Kresenii Nadezdy/ privezennoj vo Florenciju/ iz Nubii v 1827 godu/ Primi mja Gospodi/ vo Carstvie Tvoe'/Qui giace il corpo nella negretta Kalima, nel Santo/ Battesimo chiamata Nadezda (Speranza) portata a Firenze dalla Nubia nel 1827, Accoglila Signore nel Tuo Regno/

Kalima, born in Nubia, a black slave, was brought to Florence in 1827 when she was 14, her freedom purchased by Rosellini's uncle of the Champollion and Rosellini Expedition, who was baptised 'Nadezhda', 'Hope', in a Russian Orthodox family, and who died a lady in Florence. Her tomb with the only Orthodox cross in the cemetery, the Swiss forbidding any cross other than the plain Latin one. The Russian Orthodox cross has the third and slanting bar to signify the salvation of the Good Thief, the damnation of the Bad Thief, at the Crucifixion. The inscription in Cyrillic telling her story is near that of B32/ HIRAM POWERS, American, and part Native American, sculptor of the 'Greek Slave', and also near that of B93/ HOPE HAYWARD, 'OUR HOPE', while in Sector E we have the great statue of Hope by Odoardo Fantacchiotti, E25/ SAMUEL REGINALD ROUTH. Nadezhda exemplifies the spirit of the Cemetery, the Abolition of Slavery, the ending of young children's employment in mines and factories, the freeing of women, the freeing of nations. A very similar story is manifested with F53/ HENRIETTA MARIA HAY, whose Greek mother, Kalitza Psaraki, captured by Ottoman Turks in the Greek War of Independence, was purchased in Alexandria's slave market by the Scots Egyptologist, Robert Hay, and whom he married on Malta in 1828. Nubian Kalima's death at 38 occurs in the year of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, in the centre of which was Hiram Powers' 'Greek Slave'.

B20/ JOHAN CLAES LAGERSVARD/ SVEZIA/ 

    
  
ICI.REPOSE.JEAN.CLAUDE.DE.LAGERSVARD/ DERNIER.REJETON.DE.SA.FAMILLE/ MINISTRE DE S.M. LE  ROI.DE. SUEDE.ET.DE.NORVEGE/ PRES. DES. COURS. D'ITALIE/ ET CONSEILLER DE SA CHANCELLERIE/ NE LA IV AOUT MDCCLVI/ MORT LE XII.DECEMBRE.MDCCCXXVI/SUEDOIS DE COEUR ET D'AME/ HABITANT L'ITALIE DEPUIS 11 JUILLIET MDCCLXXXIX/ COMME SECRETAIRE DE LEGATION/ CHARGE D'AFFAIRES. ET. MINISTRE/ SOUS QUATRE DIFFERENTS REGNES EN SUEDE/ ET PENDANT LES REVOLUTIONS DE L'EUROPE/

He is the last descendant of his noble Swedish family, and has served in the Swedish and Norwegian Legation during the reigns of four Swedish monarchs and the Revolutions in Europe. With him, much later, is buried his wife SOPHIE HUGHUES LAGERSWARD, who had already been sculpted on the tomb as sadly taking leave of her husband, both in classical garb. Nearby is the tomb of B92/ AURORE (GRÅBERG DE HEMSO) ECKHARDT DURCKHEIM MONTMARTIN, the adopted daughter of Brigitte Hugues, Sophie Hugues's sister. The Lagersvard tomb is sculpted by the Swedish sculptor, Johan Niklas Bystrom, who worked in Rome with the Icelandic Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen (Þorvaldsson). Within an ourobouros (a serpent devouring its tail, for eternity) is a bee. Kelly Searsmith wrote, noting that the bee is the Egyptian hieroglyph for royalty, and that Pliny described bee hives being floated down the Nile so they could pollinate crops. (Monsanto pesticides kill bees.) Anna Porcinai sent a van-load of lavender plants which the Roma planted and now the cemetery is filled with contented bees, pollinating busily amongst these fragrant bushes. The Cemetery was subject to thirty years of weed-killer usage and no birds sang. When we stopped it six years ago, the blackbirds took to singing gloriously. Was the marble for Lagersvard's tomb transported from Carrara to Rome, by way of Livorno, then back again to Tuscany?

 

  

     

                                     

   

CHARLOTTE SOPHIA, MOGLIE DEL CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ NATA A LIVERPOOL IL 4 AGOSTO 1841/ MORTA A FIRENZE IL 12 FEBBRAIO 1920/ ET LAUDENT EAM IN PORTIS OPERA TUA/ D30L/ C22/ CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ ITALIA/ ENGLAND/ CONTE GIOVANNI GIGLIUCCI/ PATRIZIO FERMANO, NATO A FERMO IL 18 NOVEMBRE 1844/ MORTO A FIRENZE IL 6 DICEMBRE 1906/ VIRTUTE ET FIDE BENE QUI LATUIT BENE VIXIT

The two Counts Gigliucci are the sons of Clara Novello, the English singer of the great music publishing family, who in turn marry two sisters, daughters of the Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Their Villa Rosa is now owned by Syracuse University in Florence. The forsythia on the arch is always the first to flower, even in December-January, in the Cemetery. See above for the fuller account.

D13/ VICE PRESIDENTE SOLOMON GUILLAUME COUNIS/ SVIZZERA

A painter, he was also Vice-President of the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church in Florence. His widow was D12A/ ELISABETH (HARMAND) COUNIS (d. 1873), his daughter, D12B/ LOUISE/ELISA LE COMTE COUNIS (died 1847) who are buried beside him. He paints the portrait of C106/ JEAN DAVID MARC GONIN, the Cemetery's first burial, as if he were not just 15, but 22.

                    

D12A/ ELISABETH (HARMAND) COUNIS/ SVIZZERA

She is the wife of  D13/ SOLOMON GUILLAUME COUNIS.

 


D12B/ LOUISE/ELISA LE COMTE COUNIS/ SVIZZERA/

F MATTEI

 

We thought that three tomb bases from which the marble slabs have long gone in Sector A, at A57-59  were for three members of the Galiffe family, but other clues suggest they were buried instead in Sector D, at D47, which are tombs that we had thought were for the Pellew husband and wife. Pastor Luigi Santini wrote concerning Jacques Galiffe, that this 'Genevan historian and genealogist [in the style of Sismondi, his contemporary], lived and engaged in trade for a time in Holland, Germany and Russia, but returned to Geneva during the Napoleonic period to share in the troubles of his city. Turning to history he was in a sense the first Genevan historian to make use of documentary and archivistic sources with scientific intent. The results of his historic research, however, stripped of artifice and adulation, made him the centre of such controversy and hostility that in the end he preferred to emigrate to Florence. Italy owes to him the first systematic study of the Italian religious exiles of the sixteenth century. His daughter SOPHIE GALIFFE (1825-1841) and his second wife, AMÉLIE FRANÇOISE PICTET (1790-1872), daughter of the Charles Pictet who was the Swiss delegate at the Congress of Vienna, are also buried in the cemetery'. On the Web we find, in English, the following account: 'Jaques (James) Augustin Galiffe, (son of Barthelemy Galiffe and Marie Naville, and brother of Colonel Jean-Pierre, No XII as above) born on 7th April 1776 godson of Jaques Rilliet-Plantamour and of Augustin de Candolle - historian and genealogist. His studies for the magistracy or diplomacy were unfortunately brought to an end by the Revolution which ruined his family and compelled him to emigrate. He then adopted the commercial profession for which he had no vocation, but it was the only one in which he could hope to acquire independent means, by his aptitude for work, and his remarkable gift for languages. Besides Latin and Greek of which he was a master and English which he spoke and wrote as his mother tongue, he knew German, Dutch, Russian, Spanish and Italian, and was conversant with most of the popular dialects of the latter. This enabled him to obtain very important posts in the best banking houses of London, Holland, Germany and Russia, but these occupations did not prevent him from continuing his favourite studies, literature, languages and specially history which his frequent travels gave him opportunities of studying in the principal libraries and archives of Europe. Deeply attached to his native land, he remained zealous for what was called "the good cause", the triumph of which could alone restore the independence of Geneva. When therefore Lord Carlisle, in 1798 introduced in Parliament a motion to help the Swiss against the French, Galiffe volunteered to undertake the dangerous task of intermediary. He was then in frequent communication with the principal members of Parliament, the Duke of Portland, Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord Grenville and the famous Pitt, whose support had to be obtained. Finding that negotiations were dragging he did not hesitate to sacrifice his excellent position in London to proceed with a few friends firmly determined to accomplish their object in the best way that circumstances would permit. Adverse news from the theatre of the war stopped him on the way, and he enlisted as a Volunteer in a Militia Corps which was raised in England when a French invasion was expected. - After several years spent in Holland, at Gottingen, Hamburg and Berlin, he entered in 1805 the firm of Baron de Rall, banker of the Imperial Court at St. Petersburg. - M. de Speransky who was then Prime Minister made him tempting offers to enter the Russian Civil Service, but the fear of sacrificing his independence led him to refuse them, as also a proposal to take the direction of a Russian National Bank which was then being discussed.  It was during that period of his life that he kept a very interesting correspondence with Mme de Stael. On receipt of the news that the independence of Geneva was seriously threatened by the return of Napoleon, Galiffe gave up his splendid prospects in Russia to return and enlist as a private in the Geneva contingent, in which he served throughout the campaign of Franche-Comte, first as Staff-secretary and afterwards as an Officer. After the death of his parents, he went to Italy in 1816, and related his travels in his first book, "Italy and its inhabitants" published (in English) in London, which the reviews of the time described as one of the best of its kind. In 1820, the brothers Brougham, appointed to defend Queen Carolina, called him twice to Milan, where his indispensable assistance was required by them in the preparation of that famous trial. Having returned to Geneva where he married and resided till 1841, he set himself to study the history of his country, and worked at it until his death. Appointed to the "Commission des Archives" he undertook by himself, and gratuitously, to sort and classify thousands of documents which had been completely neglected since the Revolution, and which during the foreign occupation had been left in a state of chaos and filth. For over twenty years he persevered in this fatiguing work with a zeal which undermined his health, but neither his illness, nor his infirmities nor even the difficulties placed in his way by the ignorance and contempt of those who should have helped him, could stop him in his self-imposed task. Not only did he reconstitute the Archives of Geneva and save them from certain destruction, but he searched for every item of information necessary to control and complete them, not only in the archives of neighbouring towns but all over Switzerland, in the registers of parishes and castles in Savoy, in the Pays de Gex, at Lyons, Dijon, Paris, Chambery, Turin, Lucca and Florence. From 1829 to 1831 he published successively as first result of his work, two volumes of "Materials for the History of Geneva" and 2 volumes of "Genealogical Notices on Genevese families" (the third appeared in 1835). This at once established his reputation as an historian of Geneva, but only the experts can realise the labour which these books represent. The "Letters on the Middle-Ages", addressed in 1838 to the famous historian Schlosser, are the last historical work which he gave to the public. Schlosser declared in his "Heidelberger Yahrbucher 1839" that it was the best and most learned essay he had read, as regards knowledge and criticism of the subject. The "Letters written from Paris" had been addressed by Galiffe in 1827 to his intimate friend, Lord Brougham, Chancellor of England. They were published in 1830 at the request of several persons to whom they had been communicated and who had been struck by the wonderful foresight with which the author had anticipated the events and solution of the political situation in France. Although he filled no public functions in Geneva, except that of Municipal Councillor for the commune of Satigny, he took an active part in all political and religious discussions. Full of sympathy with the principles of Aristocracy yet he condemned them when they were opposed to progress, of which he was a sincere partisan and consequently he sometimes felt himself awkwardly situated at a time when compromise was considered as a doctrine in the political system. Sincere and convinced protestant, although a declared enemy of the calvinist dogma and system, he was a zealous champion of the liberty of creed, and in 1835 he vehemently opposed the celebration of the Jubilee of the Reformation, which he considered a blunder likely to cause discord between the citizens of the two religions. (Lettres a un pasteur du Canton, 1835) The general public is only acquainted with a portion of Galiffe's works, as the major portion is still unpublished. Besides his writings on all branches of the history of Geneva, he left a large number of sketches, notes, extracts, historical, literary and artistic criticisms, studies on languages, a very learned genealogical notice on the principal houses of the princes and counts of Southern and Central Europe, shedding considerable light on the most obscure period of the Middle-Ages, and lastly a voluminous correspondence. The latter part of his literary legacy is not the least interesting item, as he was in constant communication with the celebrities of many countries. To those already named, MADAME DE STAËL and Lord Brougham, (Lord Chancellor of England and one of his intimate friends) must be added, Mr Backhouse, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Lord Grosvenor, afterwards Marquis of Westminster. Among politicians and statesmen may be named Lord Fitzwilliam, Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Carlisle, Lord Palmerston, William Russell, Capo d'Istria, Marquis Luchesini, Ambassador to Prussia, Count Rossi, Baron Stein, Wickham, British Minister with the Army of Princes, M.de Speransky, Prime Minister of Russia, and Count J de Maistre - among historians, Messrs de Barante, Thierry, Mignet, Michelet, Sismondi, Schlosser, Karamzine, Viasemsky, and in Switzerland, de Mulinen, de Grenus, d'Estavayer, de Gingins, de Charriere - among professors, Fellenberg and Bonstetten - among women-authors, Lady Charlotte Bury, Mme de Montolieu, MARIA EDGEWORTH, Mme Necker de Saussure - among musicians, Dusseck, C M de Weber, Steibelt, Field and Abbe Litz who owed him his first letters of recommendation - the poet C Didier whom he was the first to encourage, the famous naturalist Agassiz whom he assisted pecuniarily in the prosecution of his studies, etc., etc. - As historian of Geneva, Galiffe is certainly the pioneer of the modern school of History. His publications, drawn direct from authentic documents shocked many people by the discredit which they seemed to throw on the conventional ideas of the old school, which the dominating party of the time considered as a sort of Palladium. Tired at least of the worries caused by his keen polemics, he preferred to go and settle with his family in Tuscany, without waiting for the political reaction which he had foreseen, and died at Florence 15th December 1853.  (See "Notice on the life and works of J A Galiffe" - D'un siecle a l'autre Journal de Geneve 31st December 1853 - Memoires de la Societe d'histoire et d'archeologie 1854 - Les etudes genealogiques a Geneve, by Professor Ritter - Histoire de Geneve, by Gaullieur.) Married 1st, 20th October 1817, Elizabeth Philippine only daughter of No: Jean Antoine de Claparede, President of the Civil Tribunal, and of Alexandrine-Jeanne-Antoinette Dunant, died 18th April 1825. 2nd: 26th May 1827, AMÉLIE FRANÇOISE PICTET, daughter of No: Charles Pictet, Honorary Councillor, plenipotentiary Minister of the Swiss Confederation at the Congress of Vienna, Paris and Turin, and of Sara de Rochemont, died at Florence 14th August 1872. He had by the first: (1) Jean-Barthelemy, who follows: (2) SOPHIE ANNE MARIE CATHERINE GALIFFE, born 16th April 1825 god-daughter of Prince Pierre Andreiowitch Viasemsky, died at Florence 14th November 1841. She showed remarkable dispositions for literature and music. Jean (John) Barthelemy Gaifre Galiffe, born at Geneva 31st July 1818, godson of John Thellusson, Lord Rendlesham, of John Backhouse, Minister of Foreign Affairs London, and of Mme Thellusson-Ployard.

   

   

Notes and Queries placed her tomb a hundred years ago as visible in Sector E, where we have now replaced it. She is Henry Adams' sister. Her husband was from Philadelphia, her father, Charles Francis Adams, U.S. Minister to Great Britain during the Civil War. In Florence the couple lived in the palace in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, now the Banca Popolare di Milano. Her death from tetanus in Bagni di Lucca is described in the 'Chaos' chapter of his autobiography The Education of Henry Adams:

 He had been some weeks in London when he received a telegram from his brother-in-law at the Bagni di Lucca telling him that his sister had been thrown from a cab and injured, and that he had better come on. He started that night, and reached the Bagni di Lucca on the second day. Tetanus had already set in.
  The last lesson,—the sum and term of education,—began then. He had passed through thirty years of rather varied experience without having once felt the shell of custom broken. He had never seen nature,—only her surface,—the sugar-coating that she shows to youth. Flung suddenly in his face, with the harsh brutality of chance, the terror of the blow stayed by him thenceforth for life, until repetition made it more than the will could struggle with; more than he could call on himself to bear. He found his sister, a woman of forty, as gay and brilliant in the terrors of lock-jaw as she had been in the careless fun of 1859, lying in bed in consequence of a miserable cab-accident that had bruised her foot. Hour by hour the muscles grew rigid, while the mind remained bright, until after ten days of fiendish torture she died in convulsion.
  One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces of religion and poetry which seemed to deaden one’s senses and veil the horror. Society being immortal, could put on immortality at will. Adams being mortal, felt only the mortality. Death took features altogether new to him, in these rich and sensuous surroundings. Nature enjoyed it, played with it, the horror added to her charm, she liked the torture, and smothered her victim with caresses. Never had one seen her so winning. The hot Italian summer brooded outside, over the market-place and the picturesque peasants, and, in the singular color of the Tuscan atmosphere, the hills and vineyards of the Apennines seemed bursting with mid-summer blood. The sick-room itself glowed with the Italian joy of life; friends filled it; no harsh northern lights pierced the soft shadows; even the dying woman shared the sense of the Italian summer, the soft, velvet air, the humor, the courage, the sensual fulness of Nature and man. She faced death, as women mostly do, bravely and even gaily, racked slowly to unconsciousness, but yielding only to violence, as a soldier sabred in battle. For many thousands of years, on these hills and plains, Nature had gone on sabring men and women with the same air of sensual pleasure.
 Impressions like these are not reasoned or catalogued in the mind; they are felt as part of violent emotion; and the mind that feels them is a different one from that which reasons; it is thought of a different power and a different person. The first serious consciousness of Nature’s gesture,—her attitude towards life,—took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, an insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect. Society became fantastic, a vision of pantomime with a mechanical motion; and its so-called thought merged in the mere sense of life, and pleasure in the sense. The usual anodynes of social medicine became evident artifice. Stoicism was perhaps the best; religion was the most human; but the idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort. God might be, as the Church said, a Substance, but He could not be a Person.
  With nerves strained for the first time beyond their power of tension, he slowly travelled northwards with his friends, and stopped for a few days at Ouchy to recover his balance in a new world; for the fantastic mystery of coincidences had made the world, which he thought real, mimic and reproduce the distorted nightmare of his personal horror. He did not yet know it, and he was twenty years in finding it out; but he had need of all the beauty of the Lake below and of the Alps above, to restore the finite to its place. For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was,—a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces,—and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors; but man became chaotic, and before the illusions of Nature were wholly restored, the illusions of Europe suddenly vanished, leaving a new world to learn.
  On July 4, all Europe had been in peace; on July 14, Europe was in full chaos of war. One felt helpless and ignorant, but one might have been king or kaiser without feeling stronger to deal with the chaos. Mr. Gladstone was as much astounded as Adams; the Emperor Napoleon was nearly as stupefied as either, and Bismarck: himself hardly knew how he did it. As education, the outbreak of the war was wholly lost on a man dealing with death hand-to-hand, who could not throw it aside to look at it across the Rhine. Only when he got up to Paris, he began to feel the approach of catastrophe. Providence set up no affiches to announce the tragedy. Under one’s eyes France cut herself adrift, and floated off, on an unknown stream, towards a less known ocean. Standing on the curb of the Boulevard, one could see as much as though one stood by the side of the Emperor or in command of an army corps. The effect was lurid. The public seemed to look on the war, as it had looked on the wars of Louis XIV and Francis I, as a branch of decorative art. The French, like true artists, always regarded war as one of the fine arts. Louis XIV practiced it; Napoleon I perfected it; and Napoleon III had till then pursued it in the same spirit with singular success. In Paris, in July, 1870, the war was brought out like an opera of Meyerbeer. One felt one’s self a supernumerary hired to fill the scene. Every evening at the theatre the comedy was interrupted by order, and one stood up by order, to join in singing the Marseillaise to order.

When Henry Adams' wife, Clover Adams, committed suicide from drinking photographic developing fluid, Henry had her magnificent tomb sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, now conserved in the Smithsonian Museum, alongside of sculptures by Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis and William Wetmore Story:

         
Gaudens' Clover Adams         Edmonia Lewis' Cleopatra     William Wetmore Story's Libyan Sibyl

 
This American Maecenas, married, gay, founded Graham's Magazine, had wealth, was shipwrecked and injured, appointed American Consul in Florence by President Grant, occupied the Villa Valfonda, now the Palazzo dei Congressi, Claire Claremont (Mary Shelley's stepsister, who bore Lord Byron the child Allegra), lodging with him, and he collected autographs, books, paintings which he willed to the Century Association, New York, http://archive.org/details/catalogueofjames00centiala, which sold them at auction.

E29/ (148) 703/ WILLIAM SOMERVILLE/ SCOTLAND/ WILLIAM SOMERVILLE/ ELDEST SON OF THE HISTORIAN OF QUEEN ANNE/ BORN AT MINTO ROXBURGHSHIRE/ 22 APRIL 1771/ DIED AT FLORENCE 25 JUNE 1860/ GOD WILL REDEEM MY LIFE FROM/ THE POWER OF THE GRAVE 49 PSALM

His father's death is noted in Bell's Weekly Messenger (No.1770, Sunday, February 28, 1830): 'We regret to learn that the Rev. Dr. Somerville, so eminently distinguished as the historian of Queen Anne, and for other valuable works, died at Jedburgh Manse, at a very advanced age, on Sunday last. The Rev. Doctor was the father of a Scottish church. He had assisted in the communion services in the church of his own parish on the Sabbath preceding, and apparently with no decrease of energy or zeal; but he was taken ill on the evening of that day, and continued to linger, peacefully waiting for his rest, till his departure, as we have said, on the Sabbath of the week following, much about the hour, of the evening when he was first taken ill.--At Jedburgh, on the 16th inst. after a few days illness, the Rev. Dr. SOMERVILLE, in the 90th year of his age, and the 63d in which he had discharged the active duties of a Minister.--Edinburgh paper'. British Library: Title: The History of Great Britain during the reign of Queen Anne, with a dissertation concerning the danger of the Protestant Succession, and an appendix containing original papers. Author: SOMERVILLE. Thomas. D.D. Publication details:  pp. xxvii. 674. A. Strahan, etc.: London, 1798. 4o. Author of many other books including against slavery. His son, William Somerville, a surgeon in the army, eventually doctor at Chelsea Hospital, who is buried here is the husband of the Scottish mathematician and astronomer Mary Somerville who predicted the existence of Neptune and Pluto. Mary Somerville encouraged Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace (Lord Byron's daughter), in her pursuit of mathematics, Ada Byron and Charles Babbage creating the modern computer. Mary Somerville's bust is honoured in the Royal Society of which her husband and her son were made members. She is buried in Naples' Cimitero degli Inglesi, beneath her life-size figure sculpted by the young Calabrian sculptor, Francesco Gerace, who also did the medallion of her friend, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER. Somerville College, Oxford, is named after her.  This is the first entry in the Guildhall Register under header 'Duchy of Tuscany'. There would be space for the tomb of Mary Somerville and her daughters opposite that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In Naples it lacks the plaque and no one knows who she is. A project for IBM?

         Harper's Monthly engraving
Somerset House, Royal Society

  
Mary Somerville                                  Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter
 
          
 Lawrence MacDonald, Vassar, bust Francesco Jerace, Naples, tomb

But there was an exceptional kind of boy, upon whom the high-pitched exhortations of Dr. Arnold produced a very different effect. A minority of susceptible and serious youths fell completely under his sway, responded like wax to the pressure of his influence, and moulded their whole lives with passionate reverence upon the teaching of their adored master. Conspicuous among these was Arthur Clough. Having been sent to Rugby at the age of ten, he quickly entered into every phase of school life, though, we are told, “a weakness in his ankles prevented him from taking a prominent part in the games of the place.” At the age of sixteen, he was in the Sixth Form, and not merely a Præpostor, but head of the School House. Never did Dr. Arnold have an apter pupil. This earnest adolescent, with the weak ankles and the solemn face, lived entirely with the highest ends in view. He thought of nothing but moral good, moral evil, moral influence, and moral responsibility. Some of his early letters have been preserved, and they reveal both the intensity with which he felt the importance of his own position, and the strange stress of spirit under which he laboured. “I have been in one continued state of excitement for at least the last three years,” he wrote when he was not yet seventeen, “and now comes the time of exhaustion.” But he did not allow himself to rest, and a few months later he was writing to a schoolfellow as follows:—

I verily believe my whole being is soaked through with the wishing and hoping and striving to do the school good, or rather to keep it up and hinder it from falling in this, I do think, very critical time, so that my cares and affections and conversations, thoughts, words, and deeds look to that involuntarily. I am afraid you will be inclined to think this “cant,” and I am conscious that even one’s truest feelings, if very frequently put out in the light, do make a bad and disagreeable appearance; but this, however, is true, and even if I am carrying it too far, I do not think it has made me really forgetful of my personal friends, such as, in particular, Gell and Burbidge and Walrond, and yourself, my dear Simpkinson.

Perhaps it was not surprising that a young man brought up in such an atmosphere should have fallen a prey, at Oxford, to the frenzies of religious controversy; that he should have been driven almost out of his wits by the ratiocinations of W. G. Ward; that he should have lost his faith; that he should have spent the rest of his existence lamenting that loss, both in prose and verse; and that he should have eventually succumbed, conscientiously doing up brown paper parcels for FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

BLANCHE CLOUGH wife, poet Arthur Hugh Clough, F8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough; Arthur Hugh Clough and Florence Website; Alyson Price, 'Clough, Horner, Zileri', La Città e il Libro III

ANNE JEMIMA CLOUGH suffragist, educator, principal, Newnham College: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Clough, sister, Arthur Hugh Clough, F8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough; Alyson Price, 'Clough, Horner, Zileri', La Città e il Libro III


 
BLANCHE ATHENA CLOUGH educator, daughter, Arthur Hugh Clough, F8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hugh_Clough



His wife was Blanche, his  sister, Anne Jemima Clough, first principal of Newnham College. Susan Horner wrote on 8th December 1861 in her Diary: 'I went to the Italian Church, and Mamma (A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER) Joanna and Mrs Zileri (A69/ MARGARET (EDMOND) ZILERI) to the Scotch(A17/ROBERT MAXWELL HANNA) - Blanche and I went to Mrs Bracebridge to talk over the stone she is erecting to her husband's memory. She walked back with me afterwards from the Hotel de la Ville to our house. Harry Stewart called and Mr and Mrs Macbean from Leghorn. The Marchese Torregiani sent me Champollion's work on Egypt as Blanche wanted me to take a drawing from the winged figure of the Divinity for Mr Clough's tombstone. The windows at the Pitti all lighted up for a grand reception given by the Prince Carignano. A soldier's funeral has just past our windows'.
 


This disc, flanked by snakes is seen over the gates and doorways of ancient Egyptian temples. As the symbol of a solar deity it wards off evil and protects sacred territory from malign influences. The winged globe and lotuses in lead on the marble are very much part of the Egyptomania of this period. The topiary laurel tree that once shaded it stained the marble almost irreparably and has been removed. Dr Vieri Torrigiani Malaspina has planted pomegranates by the tombs of our three great poets and a white rose on the tomb of Susan Horner's mother opposite in Sector A, A15/ ANNE SUSANNA (LLOYD) HORNER. The wild strawberries, remembered by elderly ladies who played here when they were children, have come back after the thirty-years' use of weedkiller was stopped .

    
  Lorenzo Bartolini, 'La fiducia in Dio', 1834, Milano, Museo Poldi Pezzoli

        
Harriet Thynne, 1820            Longleat, seat of the Marquess of Bath Harriet Robbins

         

THE REV. ROBERT JOHN TENNANT// THIS TABLET ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION OF MANY MEMBERS OF THIS CONGREGATION ANXIOUS TO TESTIFY THEIR ESTEEM AND APPROBATION OF THE TALENTS, ENERGY AND HIGH CHARACTER OF HIM WHO FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS FAITHFULLY DISCHARGED THE DUTIES OF CHAPLAIN TO THE BRITISH RESIDENTS IN THIS CITY, AND PLACED IN THIS CHAPEL BY A PUBLIC VOTE OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION, IS INTENDED TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF THE REV ROBERT JOHN TENNANT MA OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHO WAS BORN 14 JANUARY 1809, AND DIED 24 JULY 1842. "THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED"
 
JLMaquay, Diaries 24/7/1842 Tennant dies 26/7/1842 'attended Tennant's funeral this morning'. He is buried beside the first husband and child (F71/ DAVID REID/MARY REID) of his wife,

  

SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ WILLIAM EDGEWORTH/ THE FATHER AND . . . / HE WAS BORN . . .

This one-year-old child is unlisted in the Peerage though his two siblings Antonio Eroles and Francis Ysidro are. His mother is the Spanish Mariquita Eroles' sister, Rosa Florentina Eroles Edgeworth. His aunt is

       

   

http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/apr/06/guardianobituaries.isobelmontgomery

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ MARY ELIZABETH GUPPY/ DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND SARAH GUPPY/ OF BRISTOL ENGLAND/ - / HER SUFFERINGS TERMINATED IN FLORENCE/ JUNE 14 1841 AETAS 35/ SISTER FAREWELL

Her mother Sarah, from Birmingham, was a great inventor, taking out many patents and working with Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel who used her ideas for the Clifton suspension bridge, etc. Sarah Beach first married the Bristol merchant, Samuel Guppy, for which see the Wikipedia entry. Her sisters who erected this delicate monument of a column and urn were Grace and Sarah. Their mother later remarried and lost her wealth to her spendthrift much younger second spouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Guppy

 

Island of the Dead, Berlin

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Rachmaninoff uses the sound of the oars of Charon's boat on the waters for his symphonic poem, the 'Isle of the Dead', Opus 29

Pastore Luigi Santini: 'The [now lost] grave of a seven-month-old baby recalls the first stay in Florence of Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901), the great painter from Basel, who lived for a time in the neighbourhood of the cemetery. Married to the Roman Angela Pascucci, Böcklin later adopted Florence as his second home, and died at Villa Bencistà, below Fiesole. In spite of the evidence that a famous painting of his, now in Basel, another version in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and another in Berlin, was inspired by the island of Ponza, it reminds many of the Porta a' Pinto cemetery where his child is buried, both because of its name - Island of the Dead - and the composition itself with its cypresses'. The painting is an imaginary composite, really, of several places, Florence's 'English' Cemetery, Venice's San Michele, the island of Ponza, the island of Ischia. That the artist obsessively painted it five times following the death of his seven-month-old daughter indicates the depth of his emotion concerning his loss. His massive tomb is in the Allori Cemetery. Sergei Rachmaninoff composed the Island of the Dead as a symphonic poem about the picture.

Böcklin/+/ Maria Anna/ Arnoldo/ Svizzera/ Firenze/ 20 Marzo/ 1877/ Mesi 7/ 1387.

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Elsa Morganthal Strauss-Armistan

Judi Dench

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Arabella

Joan Plowright

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Mary Wallace

Maggie Smith

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Lady Hester Random

Lily Tomlin

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Georgie Rockwell

 and yet another foonote:

HONOURABLE FRANCES HERBERT's  father-in-law's stately home setting for Downton Abbey, C30

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