LATE SIR HENRY IRVING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8277, 19 October 1905, Page 5

LATE SIR HENRY IRVING.

[Received Last Night, at 10.37 p.m.) London", Yesterday. After the crcmilbn, the late Sir Henry Irving's 'family, on Thursday, will remove

the remains in a coffin from Baroness Bur-

dett-Coutts' hous.i to the Abbey, and place Jrijfcin St. Faith's Clapel until the funeral. The rem. ins will be interred in tie " Poet's Comer " within the shadow of Sh ikesoeare's statue.

The practice of burying Court favourites and others in AA'estminsler Abbey commenced in the reign of Richard 11., and the first poet to be laid in the south transept, often called the Poet's Corner, was Geoffrey Chaucer. In the same transept are buried Spenser, Dryden, Garrick, Johnson, Dickens, Browning, and Tennyson, and others of less note; and many monuments commemorate poets and literary men buried elsewhere. The first Lord Lylton was buried in the chapel of St. Edmund. Handel's grave is in th-3 south transept, Dean Stanley's in the chapel of Henry VII. The north transept contains the graves of Mansfield, the two Pitts, the three Cunnings, and other statesmen. In the nave are buried Newton, Scott, Street, Livingstone, Ben Johnson, Sir Charles Barry, Robert Stephenson, and Charles Darwin.— Post.