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Newport's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, U.K.

These are photos I took in 1998 from my trip to London archives to research Newport's work

The Late Mr. Newport.--A plain but handsome monument, of Aberdeen granite, has recently been erected in the cemetery at Kensal-green, to the memory of the late George Newport, the eminent naturlist and Physiologist. The subjoined simple inscription on the stone implies strongly, if it does not formally express the merits of the deceased. The fact of a public monument being raised to his memory by those who knew him best, his friends nad fewllo-workers, is an eulogy of a kind that cannot be called in questions; while his own scientific writings will ever constitute his noblest epitaph. EPITAPH: "Sacred to hte memory of George Newport, F.R.S., F.L.S, F.R.C.S., &c &c. He was born in Canterbury on the fourth day of Jly, 1803, and died in London on the 7th day of April, 1854. This monument was erected by Fellows of the Royal and Linnean Societies, to commemorate their regret for the loss of a much esteemed colleague, and to testify their sense of the great services rendered by him to scienc

Monument details from The Lancet Dec. 8, 1855, p. 8

Images of toppled monument
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