Highgate Cemetery Photo, George Wombwell memorial
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The huge lion atop this memorial is a giveaway as to the occupation of the deceased. This is the memerial to George Wombwell (d. 1850), a 'menagerist' of great renown during the Victorian period. Wombwell toured the country, exhibiting animals, like a sort of travelling zoo.
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