Henry John Temple, Third Viscount Palmerston and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1859 had died at his Hampshire country home the week before, two days before his eighty-first birthday. He was buried in a state funeral, only the fourth person outside the royal family so honored, in Westminster Abbey. Earl Russell succeeded him as Prime Minister. (By John Osborne)
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"From Europe - Our London Correspondence," New York Times, November 11, 1865
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