Monument

• 1800: Act of Union creates United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland

• 1802: Beethoven debuts Moonlight Sonata

• 1803: Start of Napoleonic Wars

• 1805: Battle of Trafalgar: Death of Nelson

• 1807: Slave trade abolished

• 1815: End of Napoleonic Wars

• 1825: 1st railway opens (Stockton - Darlington)

• 1829: Metropolitan Police founded

• 1832: Morse invents Electric Telegraph

• 1837: Queen Victoria crowned

• 1838: National Gallery founded

• 1839: Digestive biscuit invented

• 1840: Queen Victora & Prince Albert marry

• 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts

• 1847: British Museum founded

• 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto

• 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park

• 1854: Start of Crimean War

• 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published

• 1861: American Civil War begins

• 1865: Salvation Army founded

• 1869: Suez Canal opened

• 1871: Trades Unions legalised

• 1872: Secret ballots introduced for elections

• 1873: Dr Livingstone dies

• 1876: Bell invents telephone

• 1878: Electric light bulb invented

• 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation

• 1884: Fabian Society founded

Monument

Internees
Description	Head stone
Inscription	In memory of THOMAS WEBB who died June 16th 1825 aged 68 years. Also of JANE WEBB his wife who died June 16th 1838 aged 80 years. Also of JANE STOODLEY daughter of the above who died May .... 1842 aged 35 years whose remains lie in the churchyard of Chard. Also of JOHN WEBB son of the above who died Feb 18th 1860 aged 75 years.
Notes	Location: Yew block.
Name	Date of death	Age	Residence
Thomas Webb	16 Jun 1825	68
Jane Webb	16 Jun 1838	80
Jane Stoodley	May 1842	35
John Webb	18 Feb 1860	75

Transcription by Morag Curtis

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