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Show THE TOMBS IN ST. PAUL'S- Although Not siOO Tear Old, the church Ha Seen Many Famous Kut erals. London, Dec. 27. (Special t.j The Times. The burial of Joseph Boehur, the sculptor, in St. Paul's by order of the queen, recalls the fact that although j it is considerably short of 203 years old, St. Paul's has seen many famous funerals. Of the funerals in the old crypt not a vestige of course, remains. Every tomb was destroyed in the (ire, even the bones of Vandyke, perhaps the most famous personage buried in the old cathedral having been burned to dust. The tirst man buried in the new cathedral was its architect, Kir Christopher Wren, whose remains were placed in the crypt in 172!l. The tirst statue placed in the cathedral was that to John Howard, the prison reformer. One of the earliest of the great funerals funer-als was that of Sir Joshua Reynolds. That was a state burial all but in name. Twelve peers of the realm bore the pall. The next greatest painter who rests beneath the golden gol-den cross is Turner. But St. Paul's is the chosen resting place of great captains. Therein the splendid sarcophagus once destined for the ashes of Cardinal Wolsey, lies Nelson. This magnificent marble tomb was designed de-signed when Wolsey was at the apogee of his power by Torrigiano, the contemporary con-temporary of Michael Angelo. The second burial of Sir John Moore and the funerals of Lord Heathtield, to whom is due tho keeping of (Gibraltar, and Kalph Abercomby, were all stately spectacles, but none of these could compare com-pare with the solemn and stately obsequies obse-quies of the Duke of Wellington in 1H52. The great general received one of the most splendid iunerais in ail nistory, and the occasion was commemorated by Lord Tennyson's famous ode. That was the last state funeral previous to Lord Napier's of Magdarfa, which took place in St. Paul's. |