3-075-058 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Funeral of Lord Napier of Magdala: the procession in the nave of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1890. '...public funeral of this distinguished veteran soldier and servant of the British Empire...the coffin was...covered with the Union Jack, on which rested the cocked hat and sword and gold-laced sword-belt of the deceased...At noon, in St. Paul's Cathedral, the space under the dome, and both the transepts, were occupied by a congregation among whom were the Prince of Wales and Prince George of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, many Generals in uniform, and Staff officers, several foreign Ambassadors, the Lord Mayor and Corporation, and delegates of the City Companies...The organ and choristers performed Chopin's "Funeral March" as the procession entered, with the clergy, and behind them the coffin, borne by twelve men of the Royal Engineers...The pall-bearers were Sir Patrick Grant, General Chapman, Sir Donald Stewart, Sir George Higginson, Sir Dighton Probyn, General Olpherts, General Nicholson, Sir Peter Lumsden, General Taylor, Sir Martin Dillon, and Sir Charles Brownlow'. Napier, leader of the punitive expedition to Abyssinia, died during an epidemic of influenza. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.