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BROMPTON CEMETERY

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Photographs taken 28 May 2005 by Jennifer Carnell.

Steps down to the catacombs.

'Colonel V.Z. Stepanoff
Soviet Forces
13th Fenruary 1918'

'This tomb was erected by
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., & c. & c.
In memory of his devoted wife
Charlotte
Only daughter of General Hugonin
Born 8th April 1788
Died 9th February 1869.'

The other side of the tomb reads:

'To the memory of
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S., D.C.L., L.L.D., & c.
Director General of the Geological Survey,
Foreign member of the Institute of France,
Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg
And of many other scientific societies
Knight Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of
St. Anne and St. Stanislaus of Russia & c. & c.
Author of "The Silurian System of Rocks"
and of "Russia and the Ural Mountains".
Born at Taradale, Ross-shire 19th February 1792
Died in London, 22nd October 1871.'

'In memory of
Bennet Woodcroft, F.R.S.
Late Professor of Machinery at University College
And Chief of Her Majesty's Patent Office
Born 20th December 1803, Died 7th February 1879.
He was the inventor of the increasing and varying
Pitch screw propellers
Also of the improved ? [letters missing] looms.
The author of several works, and founder
Of the Patent Office Library and Museum.

Erected by his widow
Agnes Bertha Woodcroft,
Wife of the above.
Born 7th September 1833, Died 10th March 1903.'

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