An historical and descriptive account of the Royal Hospital, and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : to which is prefixed, an account of King James's College at Chelsea ... embellished with engravings, and interspersed with biographical anecdotes.

  • Faulkner, Thomas, 1777-1855.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical and descriptive account of the Royal Hospital, and the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea : to which is prefixed, an account of King James's College at Chelsea ... embellished with engravings, and interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wynne, Burrard, &c. in four royal carriages and six, and seven mourning-coaches and four. The procession passed along St. James’s-street, Piccadilly, and Sloane-street; and on reaching the northern-gate of the college, the corpse was met by the Dukes of York and Cambridge, and a great number of geneial officers. The pall was supported by eight generals. The procession was uncommonly splendid. He was interred in the burial-ground of the Royal Hospital; a handsome monument has since been erected to his memory, over which are his arms, finelyicarved in bas- relief, with the insignia of the order of the Bath, with the following inscription:— » General f SiK William Fawcett, Knight of the Bath, Colonel of His Majesty’s Third Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and Governor of the Royal Hospital of Chelsea, departed this life the 2‘2nd March, 1804, aged 7 6 years. Cjiarlotta '