st
November, 1812; and an Act of Parliament, 59 George III., cap. 35, 1819,
authorised the appropriation of part of that ground for the site of
building a church. In the burial-ground repose the remains of Dr. John
M'Leod, the companion and friend of the gallant Sir Murray Maxwell, and
the author of 'A Narrative of a Voyage in H.M.S. Alceste to the Yellow
Sea, and of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar,' published in 1817.
On his return to England, the services of Dr. M'Leod were rewarded by his
appointment to the Royal Sovereign yacht, which he did not long enjoy, as
he died in lodgings in the King's Road, Chelsea, on the 9th November,
1820, at the age of thirty-eight.

Signor Carlo Rovedino, a bass singer of some reputation, also lies buried
in this churchyard. He was a native of Milan, and died on the 6th of
October, 1822, aged seventy-one. The remains of Blanchard and Egerton,
two actors of established character, repose here side by side. William
Blanchard was what is termed "a useful comedian;" whatever part was
assigned to him, he made the most of it. At the age of seventeen, he
joined a provincial theatrical company at York, his native city, and in
1800, after fourteen years of laborious country practice, appeared at
Covent Garden as Bob Acres in 'The Rivals,' and Crack in 'The Turnpike
Gate.' At the time of his death, 9th May, 1835, he resided at No. 1,
Camera Square, Chelsea. Blanchard had dined with a friend at
Hammersmith, and left him to return home about six in the evening of
Tuesday. On the following morning, at three o'clock, poor Blanchard was
found lying in a ditch by the roadside, having been, as is supposed,
seized by a fit; in the course of the evening he was visited by another
attack, which was succeeded by one more violent on the Thursday, and on
the following day he expired.

Daniel Egerton--"oh! kingly Egerton"--personified for many years on the
stage of Covent Garden all the royal personages about whom there was
great state and talk, but who had little to say for themselves. He was
respected as being, and without doubt was, an industrious and an honest
man. Having saved some hardly-earned money, Egerton entered into a
theatrical speculation with a brother actor, Mr. Abbott, and became
manager of one of the minor houses, by which he was ruined, and died in
1835, under the pressure of his misfortunes. His widow, whose
representations of the wild women of Scott's novels, Madge Wildfi