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Brompton Cemetery is in Brompton.

On 23 Jun 1876 Matthew Noble (age 59) died at his home 43 Abingdon Villas. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery.

On 24 Nov 1876 Maria Francesca Rossetti (age 49) died unmarried of overian cancer. She was buried in the convent plot at Brompton Cemetery.

On 04 Jan 1883 Joseph William Copley 4th Baronet (age 78) died without issue. Baronet Copley Sprotborough extinct. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery.

On 20 Sep 1890 Mary Caroline Myddelton-Biddulph (age 50) died. She was buried at Brompton Cemetery.

On 04 Jan 1892 Frederick Richards Leyland (age 60) died. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery where he has a monument designed by Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 58).

On Tuesday the 4th January 1892 the 60 year shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland was travelling on the Metropolitan Line with Colonel Robert Rainsford Jackson, the managing director of the National Telephone Company (of which Leyland was also president).. Within a few minutes of entering a first class carriage in Cannon Street Leyland was gasping for air and clutching his chest. At Mansion House station Colonel Jackson summoned the train’s guard for help. At Blackfriars the train was held in the platform whilst the Station Inspector, who suspected that Leyland was already dead, called for a stretcher and had him removed from his carriage and put in his office. A doctor was sent for who arrived at 5.15pm and confirmed the Inspectors suspicions, Leyland had died of a heart attack. An inquest was held on 7 January (“death by natural causes” the verdict) and the funeral at Brompton took place next day, on the Friday morning.

On 11 Nov 1904 Valentine Cameron Prinsep (age 66) died. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery.

On 22 Jul 1921 Florence Leyland (age 61) died. She was buried with her husband Valentine Cameron Prinsep, who had died seventeen years before at Brompton Cemetery.

On 01 Feb 1931 Denison Faber 1st Baron Wittenham (age 78) died. He was buried at Brompton Cemetery. Baron Wittenham of Wallingford in Berkshire extinct.

On 01 Jan 1957 Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman Marchesa Casati (age 75) died at 32 Beaufort Gardens. She was buried at Brompton Cemetery.