Herbert Rix Grave of Dorothy Wordsworth and of John Wordsworth photographic print (b/w print) 88 x 89 mm View shows rear of St Oswald's Church, Grasmere and Wordsworth family gravestones, inscribed as follows - 'DOROTHY WORDSWORTH / 1855.', 'IN MEMORY OF / JOHN WORDSWORTH / BROTHER OF WILLIAM AND DOROTHY / "A SILENT POET" A "CHERISHED VISITANT" / AND LOVER OF THIS VALLEY. BORN [?] DEC / 1772 HE DIED AT HIS POST AS COMMANDER / OF THE EARL OF ABERGAVENNY WHICH / WAS WRECKED IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. / 3 FEBRUARY 1805. HE WAS BURIED AT / WYKE REGIS. Inscriptions: pencil (verso of image): Grave of Dorothy Wordsworth / + of John Wordsworth / Sept 1904 / See notes in small book

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Reference GRMDC.KA6.9