CHAP. XIV. 



WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 



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ford, 1834," mark the place beneath which he lies. 1 

 The adjoining stone bears the inscription, " Robert 

 Stephenson, 1859," that engineer having during his life 

 expressed the wish that his body should be laid near 

 that of Telford ; and the son of the Killingworth en- 

 gineman thus sleeps by the side of the son of the 

 Eskdale shepherd. 



TELFORD'8 BORLAL PLACE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 

 [By Percivaa Skelton ] 



It was a long, a successful, and a useful life which 

 thus ended. Every step in his upward career, from the 



1 A statue of him, by Bailey, has 

 since been placed in the east aisle of 

 the north transept, known as the Islip 

 Chapel. It is considered a fine work, 

 but its effect is quite lost in conse- 

 quence of the crowded state of the 

 aisle, which has very much the look 



VOL. II. 



of a sculptor's workshop. The sub- 

 scription raised for the purpose of 

 erecting the statue was WOOL, of 

 which 2001. was paid to the Dean 

 for permission to place it within the 

 Abbey. 



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