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- "British Neptune" 02 May 1819, page 5:
On Friday night an Inquisition was held before Thos. Stirling, Esq. coroner, at the Bedford Coffee-house, Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, on the body of the Rev. Orlebar Smith. The landlord of the Coffee-house deposed, that at an early hour on Wednesday morning, he was alarmed at hearing a person walking and crying above stairs; he got up to ascertain the cause, and found it was the daughter of the deceased who had been called up by her mother; on his enquiring the cause, she informed him her father was dying; witness sent for a surgeon, who bled him, but to no effect. The deceased was 72 years of age, and subject to a cough. Verdict -- "Died by the Visitation of God."
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1747 - 1819 (72 years)
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