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Queen Caroline funeral riots, London 1821

1821
England
Era
modern
Battle Type
Skirmish
Location
England
Status
Unregistered
Outcome
Crowds forced the funeral cortege through the City against the government's planned route; soldiers fired on the crowd, killing two civilians; Chief Magistrate Sir Robert Baker was later dismissed for allowing the procession through the City. The wider affair ended with the Bill of Pains and Penalties withdrawn in the Lords in November 1820; Queen Caroline died in August 1821, and the unrest demonstrated the scale of popular hostility to George IV and his ministers.
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Queen Caroline funeral riots, London 1821 was a modern skirmish, fought in England in 1821. Crowds forced the funeral cortege through the City against the government's planned route; soldiers fired on the crowd, killing two civilians; Chief Magistrate Sir Robert Baker was later dismissed for allowing the procession through the City. The wider affair ended with the Bill of Pains and Penalties withdrawn in the Lords in November 1820; Queen Caroline died in August 1821, and the unrest demonstrated the scale of popular hostility to George IV and his ministers.

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The site of Queen Caroline funeral riots, London 1821 lies on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.

Casualties & Losses
  • Two civilians killed: Richard Honey (carpenter) and George Francis (bricklayer), shot dead by soldiers in Hyde Park during the funeral procession on 14 August 1821; further violence at their own funeral on 26 August 1821 outside Kensington barracks, where High Sheriff Robert Waithman narrowly escaped being shot by a Life Guard.
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Scheduled Monuments near Queen Caroline funeral riots, London 1821

Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace
Scheduled monument · ~1 mi

Kensington Palace is a royal residence located in Kensington Gardens, London, originally constructed as a substantial brick mansion in the late seventeenth century. The building was acquired by William III and Mary II in 1689 and subsequently enlarged by Christopher Wren and other architects, bec…

Steve Cadman from London, U.K. / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey
Scheduled monument · ~1.7 mi

The Chapter House and Pyx Chamber in the abbey cloisters, Westminster Abbey, is a significant thirteenth-century monastic structure forming part of the claustral complex. Built in the mid-thirteenth century, the octagonal Chapter House served as the meeting place for the monastic community's admi…

Cmao20 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
The Jewel Tower
The Jewel Tower
Scheduled monument · ~1.8 mi

The Jewel Tower is a stone tower standing within the Palace of Westminster complex, dating from the mid-fourteenth century. Built during the reign of Edward III, probably around 1365-1366, it originally served as a secure stronghold for royal treasures and valuables, hence its name. The structure…

No machine-readable author provided. Lonpicman~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
Pottery kiln in Walmer Road
Scheduled monument · ~2 mi

# Pottery kiln in Walmer Road The Pottery kiln in Walmer Road is a Romano-British ceramic production site located in Middlesex. The kiln dates to the Roman period and represents evidence of local pottery manufacture within the settlement pattern of Roman Britain. The site is designated as a sched…

Warren Bennett / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Inner Temple Hall Buttery
Inner Temple Hall Buttery
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Inner Temple Hall Buttery is a sixteenth-century service building forming part of the Inner Temple precinct in London. The structure dates from approximately 1570 and served the practical function of storing and dispensing provisions for the Inn of Court. It represents an important example of Tud…

Jim Linwood / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
Barnard's Inn Hall (Mercers' School)
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 mi

Barnard's Inn Hall is a timber-framed building of fifteenth-century origin located in Gresham Street, London. The hall formerly served as the principal building of Barnard's Inn, one of the Inns of Chancery that provided legal education and accommodation for trainee lawyers during the medieval an…

A subterranean commercial ice-well (City of Westminster), Park Crescent West, W1
Scheduled monument · ~1.3 miles
Remains of Roman and medieval wall and gateway W of boundary of Stationers' Hall to Ludgate Hill
Scheduled monument · ~2.8 miles
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