RECORD: 1882.04.26. Funeral of Mr. Darwin, Westminster Abbey...Order of Procession. CUL-DAR215.2d. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR215 contains material on Darwin's funeral, obituaries & related correspondence, & on Darwin's LL.D. degree. 1877-1906.
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FUNERAL OF MR. DARWIN,
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
APRIL 26th, 1882,
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
The Choir,
The Minor Canons.
The Canon's Verger.
The Canons.
The Dean's Verger.
The Chapter Clerk] The Senior Canon. [The Receiver.
5. Pall Bearers. THE BODY. 5 Pall Bearers.
The Chief Mourner.
The Mourners in Succession.
The Servants.
The Scientific Bodies from the Chapter House.
[annotations to the left of the body:]
Sir J Lubbock
T.H Huxley
J.R. Lowell
D. of Devonshire
x A. R. Wallace
x ARW ought to have been at other end
[annotations to the right of the body:]
Canon Farrar
Sir J Hooker
Wm. Spottiswoode
Ld. Derby
D. of Argyll
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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