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SOME months ago, having become very much interested in the life and work of the famous English philosopher, the Hon. Robert Boyle, and animated to a certain extent by the spirit of the pilgrim, I thought I would go and look at his last resting-place. According to Thomas Birch, who brought out in five folio volumes the works of Boyle with a “Life“ in the year 1744, the philosopher died on December 30, 1691, seven days after his sister Katherine, Lady Ranelagh, with whom he had been keeping house in Pall Mall for more than twenty years. Brother and sister were buried in the chancel of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
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TILDEN, W. The Resting-place of Robert Boyle. Nature 108, 176 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108176a0
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