3-017-341 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: the hearse leaving Brocket Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1865. 'the setting forth of the hearse from Brocket Hall about ten o'clock in the morning ...the change of his burial-place from Romsey to Westminster Abbey was adopted at the express desire of the Queen. In consequence of this change of plan, the body of Lord Palmerston was removed on the Monday from Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, to Cambridge House, Piccadilly, travelling slowly by the turnpike road, through Hatfield, Barnet, and Finchley, in a hearse drawn by four horses and followed by a single mourning-coach'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.