Deathly Gems

If he's most famous for poems about mass death and disaster, the deaths of individuals moved McGonagall just as much. Funerals were a pretty constant part of life, and high levels of mortality through disease meant that Victorian Britons might find themselves unexpectedly in mourning at any time.

The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie The Burial of the Reverend Gilfillan The Burial of Mr Gladstone The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg The Death of Prince Leopold The Tragic Death of the Rev. A.H. Mackonochie The Death of Fred Marsden, the American Playwright The Late Sir John Ogilvy The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee Death and Burial of Lord Tennyson The Funeral of the German Emperor The Death of the Rev. Dr. Wilson