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Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease
Disease is in Death.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died from Diabetes
On 26 Mar 1889 Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (age 65) died from diabetes at 2 Queen Anne Street aka Chandos House Marylebone. Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Marquess Buckingham, Marquess of Chandos, Earl Temple, Earl Nugent extinct.
William Stephen Temple Gore-Langton 4th Earl Temple (age 41) succeeded 4th Earl Temple of Stowe according to the special remainder in its patent. Helen Mabel Graham-Montgomery Countess Temple of Stowe by marriage Countess Temple of Stowe.
Charles Lyttelton 8th Viscount Cobham (age 46) succeeded 8th Viscount Cobham. Mary Susan Cavendish Viscountess Cobham (age 36) by marriage Viscountess Cobham.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Died from Lung Disease
On 17 Mar 1867 Henry Peter Pitt-Rivers 5th Baron Rivers (age 17) died from lung disease in Torquay, Devon. His uncle George Pitt-Rivers 6th Baron Rivers (age 52) succeeded 6th Baron Rivers of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Blood Poisoning
On 17 May 1633 Penelope Noel (age 22) died of blood poisoning after having pricked herself with a needle whilst sewing. Monument in St James' Church, Chipping Campden [Map]. Sculpted by John Christmas (age 34) or possibly his brother Mathias.
Penelope Noel: On 22 Aug 1610 she was born to Edward Noel 2nd Viscount Campden and Juliana Hicks Viscountess Campden.
On 11 Nov 1931 Archie Primrose (age 21) died of blood poisoning at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map].
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Died of Bright's Disease
On 1854 Walter Deverell (age 27) died of Bright's Disease.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Cancer
On 09 Apr 1873 Charles Allston Collins (age 45) died of cancer.
On 02 Jul 1908 Henry Arthur Cadogan (age 40) died of cancer at Temple House, Theobalds Park.
On 14 Sep 1997 Andrew Douglas Algernon Fountaine (age 78) died of cancer possibly at Swaffham Hospital otherwise at Narford Hall without issue. His brother John Brigg Charles Fountaine (age 74) inherited Narford Hall.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Cholera
On 16 May 1832 Casimir Pierre Périer (age 54) died of cholera.
On 05 Aug 1834 Richard King 2nd Baronet (age 59) died of cholera at Sheerness Isle of Sheppey [Map]. His son Richard Duckworth-King 3rd Baronet (age 29) succeeded 3rd Baronet King of Bellevue in Kent.
On 19 Dec 1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner (age 76) died of cholera at the home of Sophia Caroline Booth at 119 Cheyne Walk.
On 12 Aug 1854 Robert Jocelyn (age 38) died of cholera.
On 29 Jun 1879 Charles Bennet (age 28) died of cholera at India.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Convulsions
On 03 Oct 1675 Catherine Laura Stewart died of convulsions.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Diptherea
In 1749 Maria Lanove died of diptherea. Two of her children with Captain Philip Thicknesse (age 30) also died of the same disease.
On 17 Oct 1893 Violet Hyacinth Bowes-Lyon (age 11) died of diptherea.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Fever
On 05 Nov 1624 James Wriothesley (age 19) died of fever at Roosendaal. On 28 Dec 1624 he was buried at Titchfield, Hampshire [Map].
In Apr 1741 Borlace Wallop (age 20) died of fever.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Gaol fever
Around Mar 1577 a virulent outbreak of gaol fever occurred in Oxford killing around 300 people.
After 25 Jul 1577 Robert Bell (age 38) died of gaol fever.
In Jul 1577 Thomas D'Oyly died.
In Mar 1586 a virulent outbreak of gaol fever occurred during the Assizes in Exeter, Devon [Map]. The cause according to modern medical opinion was typhus transmitted by the human body-louse. Among the dead victims were eight judges, eleven of the twelve jurors, several constables, and the surrounding population which was ravaged by the disease for several months.
Edward Flowerdew died of gaol fever.
On 28 Mar 1586 Thomas Carew of Haccombe (age 70) died of gaol fever.
On 31 Mar 1586 John Chichester died of gaol fever.
On 01 Apr 1586 Robert Carey (age 71) died of gaol fever.
On 02 Apr 1586 Arthur Bassett (age 45) died of gaol fever.
On 10 Apr 1586 Bernard Drake (age 58) died of gaol fever.
In 1592 Robert Denys died of gaol fever contracted whilst serving as a magistrate at the Lent Black Assizes of Exeter in 1586 which accounted for a number of deaths, including several other prominent Devonshire magistrates and visiting circuit judges.
On 16 Aug 1661 Thomas Fuller (age 53) typhus at his lodgings in Covent Garden [Map]. He was buried in St Dunstan Church Cranford.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Gout
In Mar 1691 John Riley (age 45) died of gout. He was buried in St Botolph's without Bishopgate.
On 03 Mar 1709 Thomas Felton 4th Baronet (age 59) died of gout. His brother Compton Felton 5th Baronet (age 59) succeeded 5th Baronet Felton of Playford in Suffolk.
On 29 Sep 1719 Henry Johnson Baron Wentworth (age 58) died of gout at Bath, Somerset [Map].
On 23 May 1828 Cecil Weld-Forester 1st Baron Forester (age 61) died of gout at Belgrave Square, Belgravia. His son John Weld-Forester 2nd Baron Forester (age 26) succeeded 2nd Baron Forester of Willey Park in Shropshire.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Influenza
On 03 Jan 1894 Hungerford Crewe 3rd Baron Crewe (age 81) died of influenza unmarried. Baron Crewe of Crewe in Cheshire extinct. His estates were inherited by his nephew Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe Milnes 1st Marquess of Crewe (age 35) who adopted the additional surname Crewe.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Malaria
On 10 Jun 1584 Francis Valois Duke Anjou (age 29) died of malaria unmarried.
On 28 Apr 1921 Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (age 31) died of malaria while taking part in a big game expedition in Rhodesia.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Measles
In Jan 1661 Anne Ogilvy Countess Glancairn died of measles.
On 12 Feb 1712 Maria Adelaide Savoy (age 26) died of measles at Versailles.
On 18 Feb 1712 Louis Bourbon Duke Burgundy (age 29) died of measles contracted when nursing his wife Maria Adelaide Savoy (age 26) who had died six days previously.
On 08 Mar 1712, their eldest son, heir to the throne, Louis Bourbon Duke Brittany (age 5) died of measles.
The heir to the French throne their only remaining son Louis (age 1), aged two, great-grandson of the reigning monarch Louis "Sun King" XIV King France (age 73) succeeded his great-grandfather three years later in 1715.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Meningitis
On 14 Jun 1939 Johanna Hesse Darmstadt (age 2) died of meningitis.
On 28 May 1948 Unity Valkyrie Mitford (age 33) died of meningitis caused by the cerebral swelling around the bullet that had lodged in her brain after she had shot herself in Dec 1939.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Pleurisy
On 09 Jun 1511 William Courtenay 1st Earl Devon (age 36) died of pleurisy. His son Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter (age 15) succeeded 2nd Earl Devon. His widow Catherine York Countess Devon (age 31) subsequently took a vow of celibacy in the presence of Bishop Richard Fitzjames on 13 Jul 1511.
On 19 Feb 1625 Arthur Chichester 1st Baron Chichester (age 61) died of pleurisy. He was buried in St Nicholas' Church, Carrickfergus, County Antrim.
In 1876 Beatrice Charlotte Elizabeth Vesey died of pleurisy at Brook Street.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Quinsy
On 25 Mar 1650 John Williams Archbishop of York (age 68) died of quinsy.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Scarlet Fever
On 27 Mar 1714 Charlotte Amalie Hesse-Kassel Queen Consort Denmark and Norway (age 63) died of scarlet fever.
On 08 Jul 1779 Robert Bertie 4th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven (age 22) died of scarlet fever unmarried at Grimsthorpe, South Kesteven. His uncle Brownlow Bertie 5th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven (age 50) succeeded 5th Duke Ancaster and Kesteven, 5th Marquess Lindsay, 8th Earl Lindsey. His sister Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie 21st Baroness Willoughby of Eresby (age 18) succeeded 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.
On 30 Apr 1810 Charles James Yorke (age 12) died of scarlet fever.
In 1835 Georgiana Carolina Dashwood Lady Astley (age 39) died of scarlet fever at King's Bench Prison [Map].
In 1843 Louisa Rous died of scarlet fever.
In 1867 Mary Spencer-Stanhope (age 7) died of scarlet fever. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence. Her headstone was designed by her father.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Spotted Fever
On 02 Jul 1660 Samuel Crew died of spotted fever.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Typhoid
In 1644 Oliver Cromwell (age 22) died of typhoid.
On 10 Nov 1669 Elizabeth de St Michel (age 29) died of typhoid.
On 01 Dec 1871 George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope 7th Earl Chesterfield (age 40) died of typhoid unmarried. His third cousin George Philip Stanhope 8th Earl Chesterfield (age 49) succeeded 8th Earl Chesterfield, 8th Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire. He had been staying at Londesborough Lodge Scarborough with the Prince of Wales (age 30) who also contracted typhoid but survived.
On 01 Dec 1893 Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Duke Leinster (age 42) died of typhoid. His son Maurice Fitzgerald 6th Duke Leinster (age 6) succeeded 6th Duke Leinster.
On 08 Mar 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Arthur Clowes (age 48) died of typhoid whilst on active service at Cairo. He was buried at the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Plot D.344.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Typhus
On 13 Dec 1848 John Termouth (age 52) died of typhus. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. His grave is marked by a Carrara marble stela with a classical relief of a grieving draped woman embracing an urn-topped pedestal. This may be one of his own works.
On 15 Dec 1849 Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (age 28) died of typhus.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of Yellow Fever
On 16 Sep 1746 Thomas Davers (age 57) died of yellow fever in Jamaica.
On 24 Nov 1807 Lieutenant Nevile Fane (age 19) died of yellow fever at Bridgetown, Barbados where he was buried.
In 1808 Lieutenant Charles Cecil Bisshop (age 23) died of yellow fever in Jamaica after the frigate Muros was wrecked whilst endeavouring to destroy some batteries near Havana, Cuba.
In 1825 Augustus James Champion de Crespigny died of yellow fever.
In 1862 Bishop Charles Caulfield (age 58) died of yellow fever.
Culture, General Things, Death and Illness, Death, Disease, Died of a Heart Attack
On 20 Nov 1863 James Bruce 12th Earl Kincardine 8th Earl Elgin (age 52) died of a heart attack while crossing a swinging rope and wood bridge over the river Chadly, on the lap between Kullu and Lahul in Himachal Pradesh. He was buried at St John in the Wilderness Church, Dharamshala. His son Victor Bruce 13th Earl Kincardine 9th Earl Elgin (age 14) succeeded 13th Earl Kincardine, 9th Earl Elgin.
