Memorial Service
At 4pm on Thursday 24 January 1907, The Reverend Septimus Pennington conducted a memorial service for Robinson at St. Clement Danes, Strand, London. According to a report in the Daily Express newspaper (Saturday 26 January 1907), the congregation included the following notable figures: Arthur Hammond Marshall, Owen Seaman, Max Pemberton, Cyril Arthur Pearson, Percy Everett, Alfred Harmsworth, Joseph Lawrence, Sir Felix Sermon, Sir William Bell (former member of the British Iron Trade Association & tax-reform campaigner), Anthony Hope Hawkins, Clement King Shorter, Gerald Fitzgerald Campbell, Leslie Ward (‘Spy’), Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Leonard Upcott Gill (journalist, author & publisher), Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench and Henry Hamilton Fyfe.
The congregation sang a hymn entitled Peace, Perfect Peace. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was unable to attend either the funeral or the memorial service because he was at that time, busily campaigning for the release from prison of one George Edalji. He did however send a floral tribute to the funeral service in Ipplepen with a message that read "In loving memory of an old and valued friend from Arthur Conan Doyle".
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