A couple of months ago I got to look in the crypt of St Peter ad Vincula (“St Peter in chains”) the Chapel Royal within the Tower of London. Within this space is the shrine of Thomas More (canonised by Pope Pius XI in 1935), but it was a plaque on the wall that caught my eye.
This commemorates Mary Rose Milman “the beloved wife” of Lt. General George Milman who was the Tower’s ‘Major’ (now known as the ‘Resident Governor’, basically the person responsible for the day to day running of the castle) who died on 14 February 1885, “having never recovered from the shock of the dynamite explosion in the White Tower on the previous 24 January”.
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