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Sir Richard Burton's wife Isabel had an ostentatious mausoleum built for him at St. Mary Magdelene's church, Mortlake; a location agreed upon by the couple before Burton's death in 1890. It is in the shape of the type of Bedouin tent that Burton described in his poem The Kassidah. Mortlake is just a half an hour walk away from Richmond town centre, south-west of London. At the back of the tomb is a ladder on which one can climb to peer through a window and look inside, although on the day that I went this window was completely frozen over on both sides.
Below is a closer picture of the inscriptions on the front of the tomb.
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