BURIAL AT WESTMINSTER
NORTHUMBERLAND’S PRIVILEGE. British Official Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 25. The Duke of Northumberland, who died on Saturday, is to be buried m Westminster Abbey on Wednesday. The Dukes of Northumberland have prescriptic rights to burial in the Abbey and to the use of tho great west door, which is an. entrance to the Abbey reserved for Royalty. No other family in the land has this prescriptive right but it has not always been exercised. The coffin will be taken through the great west door and placed in the Northumberland tomb in the chapel of Saint Nicholas.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1930, Page 11
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