# leach (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover leach. Page: Feed: --- ## [Headstones: BARCLAY](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/216134747/patricia-diane-barclay) _2026-08-20 · (untitled)_ Status: located. Patricia Diane Barclay - Find A Grave: 216134747 ## [Family: Living / Living](https://paulmcknight.ca/familygroup.php?familyID=F807&tree=RJM) _2026-08-19 · (untitled)_ 1984 ## [Individual: Braney, John Miles (I3639)](https://paulmcknight.ca/getperson.php?personID=I3639&tree=RJM) _2026-08-19 · (untitled)_ b. 1946, ## [Family: Living / Living](https://paulmcknight.ca/familygroup.php?familyID=F1842&tree=RJM) _2026-08-18 · (untitled)_ ## [Headstones: KELLY KILLOUGH](https://paulmcknight.ca/showmedia.php?mediaID=4289) _2026-08-18 · (untitled)_ Status: located. William Kelly; Merrill Kelly, née Killough; Eva Marie Killough; Mabel Irene Killough ## [Individual: Killough, Merrill (I1773)](https://paulmcknight.ca/getperson.php?personID=I1773&tree=RJM) _2026-08-18 · (untitled)_ b. 22 Jun 1902, East Wawanosh Township, Ontario, Canada ## [Individual: Killough, Eva May (I1775)](https://paulmcknight.ca/getperson.php?personID=I1775&tree=RJM) _2026-08-18 · (untitled)_ b. 30 Apr 1909, Ashfield, Ontario, Canada ## [Family: Living / Living](https://paulmcknight.ca/familygroup.php?familyID=F1745&tree=RJM) _2026-08-11 · (untitled)_ 3 Jul 2026, Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada ## [Individual: Jardine, Joseph Wallace (I1509)](https://paulmcknight.ca/getperson.php?personID=I1509&tree=RJM) _2026-07-29 · (untitled)_ b. 1816, Scotland, United Kingdom ## [Headstones: PRYBYSKI](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/276753271/sandra-kay-leach) _2026-07-25 · (untitled)_ Status: notyetlocated. Sandra Kay Leach, née Prybyski - Find A Grave: 276753271 ## [AI Summaries & Audio Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8QUkxoCecUib) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to concise audio briefings for the latest stories. ## [Home of the brave - Manor Park Cemetery, London E12](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/07/home-of-brave-manor-park-cemetery.html) _2026-07-03 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ In 1874 the Manor Park Cemetery Company (who still own and run the cemetery today) bought 115 acres of land on Hamfrith Farm from the British Land Company to open a new cemetery. The company quickly disposed of more than half of their new acquisition for the sum of £2939, enabling them to pay shareholders a dividend of 4% before they carried their first burial on March 25th 1875. The chapel was… ## [A tale of two coffins; James Moore (1849-1935) & Ivy May Hamilton (1922-1966) Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-tale-of-two-coffins-james-moore-1949.html) _2026-06-12 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ Not many people visit the KGC catacombs these days but anyone lucky enough to get the chance always sees this pair of coffins with their immortelles. Why the coffins were not tucked away into a vault but left standing out in a corridor no one was really sure. The assumption was that they were temporarily deposited in the catacombs waiting for either a grave to be prepared in the cemetery or… ## [What heaps of unmeaning stone and marble! A visit to Westminster Abbey](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/06/what-heaps-of-unmeaning-stone-and.html) _2026-06-05 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ In the opposite transept to Poet's Corner stands a monument which is among the most renowned achievements of modern art, but which to me appears horrible rather than sublime. It is the tomb of Mrs. Nightingale, by Roubillac. The bottom of the monument is represented as throwing open its marble doors, and a sheeted skeleton is starting forth. The shroud is falling from his fleshless frame as he… ## [The Story of the Gnome Fly Part 3 - the final days of Hervio Nano; Harvey Leach (1801-1847)](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-story-of-gnome-fly-part-3-final.html) _2026-05-22 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ Leach fell on hard times after the fire at the Bowery Theatre as other than Thomas Hamblin no one in the US seemed willing to engage him. It was almost certainly during this time that he approached P.T. Barnum in New York, proposing to the famous showman that he exhibit him in London, the stipulation on location presumably being a way of paying his passage back to England. According to the… ## [The Story of the Gnome Fly Part 2 - Introducing Signor Hervio Nano; Harvey Leach (1801-1847)](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-story-of-gnome-fly-part-2.html) _2026-05-14 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ In late 1837, after almost eight years working exclusively on the continent, the American born performer Harvey Leach returned to England with a new identity, as the Neapolitan Signor Hervio Nano, and a sensational new act, the Gnome Fly. A notice of the previous night’s performance at the Adelphi in The Times of February 1st 1838 gives some idea of Leach’s extraordinary performance: A very… ## [The Story of the Gnome Fly Part 1 - The American Dwarf; Harvey Leach (1801-1847)](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-story-of-gnome-fly-part-1-american.html) _2026-05-08 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ From the February 1954 issue of the US comic 'Nightmare' I believe the name "Hop-Frog" was not that given to the dwarf by his sponsors at baptism, but it was conferred upon him, by general consent of the seven ministers, on account of his inability to walk as other men do. In fact, Hop-Frog could only get along by a sort of interjectional gait - something between a leap and a wriggle … But… ## [What a way to go! 10 unusual causes of death at Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/03/what-way-to-go-10-unusual-causes-of.html) _2026-03-25 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ 1. Frank Linsly James – Killed by an elephant 1890 Frank James was the son of wealthy American merchant Daniel James, a founder partner of the firm Phelps, Dodge & Co, who moved to Liverpool in 1831 to run the British side of the business and where James was born in 1851. With apparently no need to earn his own living Frank spent his adult life as an adventurer and explorer, travelling in Sudan,… ## [A short history of Suicide in Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-short-history-of-suicide-in-kensal.html) _2026-03-13 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ Cases of suicide in cemeteries are not unknown today, but they are very rare. Though they were still unusual events cemetery suicides occurred more frequently in the 19th and early part of the 20th century. The most common reason for choosing a cemetery as a suicide site seems, unsurprisingly, to be the presence of a grave of a loved one, a partner or a parent usually. In their 2017 paper Unusual… ## [In the dark, under the wires, I hear them call my name - two John Hardys and Jeffrey Lee Pierce](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/03/in-dark-under-wires-i-hear-them-call-my.html) _2026-03-06 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ Walking to Paddington Station last November, after spending the morning in Kensal Green cemetery, I found myself with a sudden urge to listen to ‘Miami’ by the Gun Club. In particular the song ‘John Hardy’ was running around in my head. And so I strolled along the canal towpath listening to the album on Spotify. It was only a couple of days later, when going through the pictures I had taken that… ## [Sunset, Kensal Green Cemetery 28.01.2026](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/01/sunset-kensal-green-cemetery-28012026.html) _2026-01-29 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ This anonymous article appeared in the New Court Gazette of Saturday 17 September 1842, when the cemetery was just 9 years old. The style is rather overblown, the wind is a ‘balmy zephyr’, a troubled heart is an ‘afflicted breast’ and the text is liberally sprinkled with adverbs, adjectives and lofty thoughts. It starts with a quotation from a ’favourite author’ but I have not been able to trace… ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VpNr1kURs2pO) _2026-01-29 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Central Cemetery Burges Assebroek, Belgium](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/01/central-cemetery-burges-assebroek.html) _2026-01-23 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ I think this was the first time that I have ever looked for a grave that I only knew from social media. This tomb. with skull and crossbones resting on a tasselled pillow. is a favourite on Facebook and Instagram and you see it constantly in cemetery groups. It is all over the internet, along with silly rumours that the haut bourgeois wine and textile merchant who is buried here embraced a career… ## [Thirty minutes from sundown; time travel in the Anglican Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2026/01/thirty-minutes-from-sundown-time-travel.html) _2026-01-15 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ My friend Meriel and I were showing a visitor the catacombs at Kensal Green just before Christmas. When our visitor left, we went back down to the vaults to check on some memorial tablets stored there. Standing underground in the dark, surrounded by hundreds, thousands of corpses, even though they are hidden from sight in lead lined coffins, is a disquieting experience. When your vision is limited… ## [To the memory of the Maharani of the Punjab; Jind Kaur (1817-1863) Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/12/to-memory-of-maharani-of-punjab-jind.html) _2025-12-05 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ It’s nice to see that, at the Dissenter’s Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, someone has left flowers for Maharani Jind Kaur (1817-1863) and draped her wall plaque in fairy lights. Jind Kaur was the youngest of the wives of Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), the founder and first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. She bore Ranjit one son, Duleep Singh who inherited his father’s throne at the age of 5 after his… ## ['I see the Four-fold man, Humanity in deadly sleep'; Ben Edge and the Children of Albion, Fitzrovia Chapel](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-see-four-fold-man-humanity-in-deadly.html) _2025-11-21 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present and Future existing all at once Before me. O Divine Spirit, sustain me on thy wings, That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose William Blake – Visions of the Daughters of Albion The last time that I went to the Fitzrovia Chapel it was still called… ## [The Sewing Machine, the Umbrella and the Operating Table; a rainy afternoon in Buffalo](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-sewing-machine-umbrella-and.html) _2025-11-07 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ I had few, if any, preconceived notions about Buffalo; in all honesty, until relatively recently I didn’t even know where it was. If I had been asked to guess, I would have fallen into the obvious trap of assuming it had been named after Bison bison , the American buffalo, and gone for somewhere on the great plains, in Kansas, Dakota or Wyoming. I would never have guessed upper New York state,… ## [The Lost Memorials of London; the shrine of St Erkenwald, Old St Pauls Cathedral](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-lost-memorials-of-london-shrine-of.html) _2025-10-10 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ St. Erkenwald (c630-693) founder of Barking abbey, Abbott of Chertsey and Bishop of London, once a great English saint, is now almost forgotten. His magnificent shrine stood behind the high altar in Old St Pauls and, according to Walter Thornbury in Volume 1 of Old & New London (1878) was “a source of wealth and power to the cathedral”; Foremost among the relics were two arms of St. Mellitus… ## [Remembering the dead, post-mortem photography; the Rosi memorial, Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/09/remembering-dead-post-mortem.html) _2025-09-23 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ It doesn’t matter how much time you spend in a particular cemetery, there is always something that you haven’t seen, that you have somehow missed or overlooked. Sometimes these overlooked things are quite astonishing and, to make it worse, are hiding in plain sight. In a post on Instagram The Architecture of Death (excellent pictures, check him out) posted a photo of a photo, a post-mortem… ## [Friend of China, Enemy of Oppression; Augustus Frederick Lindley (1840-1871) Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/09/friend-of-china-enemy-of-oppression.html) _2025-09-19 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ The epitaph on the grave of Augustus Frederick Lindley, in Kensal Green Cemetery, notes that he was a friend of China and an enemy of oppression. Although Lindley died in March 1873, the headstone is relatively modern, a rough-hewn pink granite slab bearing the signature of local stonemasons J.S. Farley but paid for by a research association of Beijing based academic historians, and unveiled in… ## [Whatever happened to the heroes? Monuments to the war dead in St Paul's Cathedral](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/06/whatever-happened-to-heroes-monuments.html) _2025-06-19 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ Like Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral is not a place you pop into casually. Unless you have an invitation to a Royal Wedding, are attending a memorial service for a recently departed member of the great and the good or you can convince one of the security staff that you actually want to go in and worship, then the cost of entry is £26. The Church of England may be the 8 th biggest landowner… ## [Tempus fugit; Sally Mann 'What Remains' (Bulfinch Press, 2003, out of print) & 'Hold Still; A Memoir with Photographs' (Penguin Modern Classics, 2024 £14.99)](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/06/tempus-fugit-sally-mann-what-remains.html) _2025-06-05 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ As for me, I see both the beauty and the dark side of the things; the loveliness of cornfields and full sails, but the ruin as well. And I see them at the same time, at once ecstatic at the beauty of things, and chary of that ecstasy. The Japanese have a phrase for this dual perception: mono no aware. It means "beauty tinged with sadness," for there cannot be any real beauty without the indolic… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zVk2fkK5sqeo) _2025-06-05 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [The Tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) Riverside Drive, New York](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-tomb-of-general-ulysses-s-grant.html) _2025-02-28 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ It was a freezing February visit to NYC; nighttime temperatures down to -8C and daytime only up to -1C in the sun, -10 with windchill taken into account. I wanted to visit Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn and I would happily have braved the subarctic weather conditions. But I could hardly expect the mother of my children to risk frostbite trailing around after me. We compromised and went to visit… ## [Scenes of Clerical Life; the remarkable story of the Rev. Basil Claude Hudson Andrews (1867-1963? final resting place unknown)](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/02/scenes-of-clerical-life-uncommon-life.html) _2025-02-03 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ This kindly looking old cove is the Reverend Basil Andrews, for forty years the chaplain at Kensal Green Cemetery. The most famous funeral service he conducted, certainly the one he remembered in later life, was for Winston Churchill’s two-year-old daughter Marigold in August 1921. A grief-stricken Churchill asked the assembled press photographers not to take pictures and it is always said that… ## [Glasgow Necropolis](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2025/01/glasgow-necropolis.html) _2025-01-17 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ Seated under the massive proportions of a handsome mausoleum erected to the memory of a distinguished citizen of Glasgow, we write the notes for this article on the Necropolis, a burying-place beautified by nature and art. It is a bright morning in January, and the bracing frosty air has quite a pleasant and exhilarating effect. From far down in the valley beneath comes the hum of busy city life,… ## [The Messalina of the Suburbs; Edith Jessie Thompson (1893-1923) City of London Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-messalina-of-suburbs-edith-jessie.html) _2024-12-13 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ “Three soldiers of the Coldstream Guards were walking in Montgomery street. Onegavean opinion in which all concurred. It was the woman, they said; he showed himself a man afterwards.” James Joyce ‘Finnegans Wake’ At around midnight on Tuesday the 3rd October 1922, a married couple Percy and Edith Thompson were walking back to their house on Kensington Gardens from Ilford train station. They had… ## [More Die of Heartbreak; Baron Farkas Kemény. (1797–1852) Kensal Green Cemetery](https://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2024/12/death-from-broken-heart-baron-farkas.html) _2024-12-05 · David Bingham · The London Dead_ 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. Lord Byron. Don Juan, XI, st. 60 Byron’s sardonic couplet on the death of Keats was prompted by Leigh Hunt’s claim that a critical review of ‘Endymion’, in the Quarterly Review, was responsible for the poet’s death. Byron may have found it ludicrous that wounded amour-propre could prove fatal but far…