FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE - The Strange History of the English Will with Peter Dodge
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- Dissenters Chapel
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £12.00
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Sun, 17th Oct 2021 @ 13:30 - 15:00
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13:30 - 15:00
Shakespeare bequeathed his “second best bed” to his wife Anne Hathaway. Philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s will instructed that his body be dressed in a suit and displayed in a glass cabinet. His preserved corpse now presides over the entrance hall of University College London. Charles Dickens requested to be “buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious and strictly private manner”. This was ignored and he was interred in Westminster Abbey and his funeral was followed by a day of national mourning.
Dusty Springfield’s last will and testament specified the treatment required for her pet cat Nicholas, which included feeding him on imported baby food from the United States and providing an indoor tree house in which the unfortunate feline would be obliged to listen to recordings of his late mistress singing.
The modern law of wills and probate dates from the mid-nineteenth century. Before that, there was a complex and bewildering system of rules and jurisdictions. In his talk, Peter Dodge will take us to Doctors’ Commons, the Prerogative Court and the Will Office. We will hear from Dickens and Wilkie Collins as Peter seeks to blow the dust from a strange and long-forgotten legal world.
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation toward a host of restoration projects at Kensal Green Cemetery.
Peter Dodge
Peter Dodge is a Chancery barrister practising from chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. Whilst much of his day-to-day work relates to banking and financial services (including mis-selling), property and professional negligence (including negligence in will writing), he also has a long-standing interest in legal history and biography. He has written about the original author of the oldest English legal textbook still in publication and spoken at Salon for the City on Lincoln’s Inn as it existed at the time of “Bleak House”.
Image credit - Auxerre, France: tomb of Paul Bert, covered with wreaths of flowers. Public domain courtesy of Wellcome Collection.
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From Beyond the Grave
includes a delightful gin Cocktail
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13:30 - 15:00 | £12.00 |
Location
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Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB
Nearest Station
Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
Getting there
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A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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