Cowper was buried here by the side of Mary Unwin, and every Sunday little George would see his tomb just as Henry Kingsley was wont to see the tombs in Chelsea Old Church.

The fervour of devotion to Cowper's memory that obtained in those early days must have been a stimulus to the boy, who from the first had ambitions far beyond anything that he was to achieve.

Here was his first lesson.

The second came from Lady Fenn--a more vivid impression for the child.

Twenty years before Borrow was born Cowper had sung her merits in his verse.