Editing John Herschel (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Herschel&darwin.jpg|thumb|left|The adjoining tombs of John Herschel and [[Charles Darwin]] in [[Westminster Abbey]].]]

Herschel died on 11 May 1871 at age 79 at Collingwood, his home near [[Hawkhurst]] in Kent.  On his death, he was given a national funeral and buried in [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>'The Abbey Scientists' Hall, A.R. p. 56: London; Roger & Robert Nicholson; 1966</ref>

His obituary by Henry W Field of London was read to the [[American Philosophical Society]] on 1 December 1871.{{sfn|Field|1871|pp=217–223}}
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