BURIAL OF FIFTEEN DUKES
The magnificent mausoleum of the Dukes of Hamilton at Hamilton Pnjace, Lanarkshire, has been opened, and the. bodies of fifteen dukes removed to the Bent Cemetery for reburial. Some time ago tho bodies of the last two dukes, the father and grandfather of the Marchioness of Graham, wore removed quietly and buried in the vaults at Brodrick Castle, in the Isle of Arran, which is a possession of the Hamiltons. Costing nearly three-quarters of a million, the famous mausoleum had become unsafe through coal mining operations. The mausoleum, a huge domed structure 120 ft high, was built by the tenth i Duke of Hamilton for himself, his son, grandson, and nine predecessors, who rest in crimson coffins. He usol to refe-iwilh pride to the grand spectacle there would be when twelve Dukes of Hamilton rose together at the
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Evening Star, Issue 17854, 28 December 1921, Page 5
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142BURIAL OF FIFTEEN DUKES Evening Star, Issue 17854, 28 December 1921, Page 5
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