Editing Edward Carson (section)

=== State funeral ===

Lord Carson lived at Cleve Court, a [[Queen Anne Style architecture|Queen Anne]] house near [[Minster-in-Thanet|Minster]] in the [[Isle of Thanet]], [[Kent]], bought in 1921. It was here that Carson died peacefully on 22 October 1935.<ref name=":0" /> Britain gave him a state funeral, which took place in Belfast at [[St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast|St Anne's Cathedral]]; he is still the only person to have been buried there. From a silver bowl, soil from each of the six counties of [[Northern Ireland]] was scattered onto his coffin, which had earlier been covered by the [[Union Flag]], which however was removed during the service. At his funeral service the choir sang his favourite hymn, "[[I Vow to Thee, My Country]]". A warship had brought his body to Belfast and the funeral took place on Saturday 26 October 1935. Thousands of ship workers stopped work and bowed their heads as [[HMS Broke (D83)|HMS ''Broke'']] steamed slowly up [[Belfast Lough]], with Carson's flag-draped coffin sat on the quarterdeck.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Lord Carson's Funeral |department=News |date=28 October 1935 |page=11 |issue=47206 |column=A }}</ref> This would be the last state funeral for a non-member of [[British royal family|the royal family]] until the [[funeral of Winston Churchill]] in 1965.