On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
There is a memorial sundial to Alice in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated. [by Frank King, Fellow of Churchill, CAM 73]
"Presented by
some of her college friends
in memory of
Alice Hopkinson
who lost her life on the Alps
Aug. 27th 1898 aged 23"
There is a memorial sundial to Alice in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated. [by Frank King, Fellow of Churchill, CAM 73]
"Presented by
some of her college friends
in memory of
Alice Hopkinson
who lost her life on the Alps
Aug. 27th 1898 aged 23"
On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
There is a memorial sundial to Alice in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated. [by Frank King, Fellow of Churchill, CAM 73]
"Presented by
some of her college friends
in memory of
Alice Hopkinson
who lost her life on the Alps
Aug. 27th 1898 aged 23"
There is a memorial sundial to Alice in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated. [by Frank King, Fellow of Churchill, CAM 73]
"Presented by
some of her college friends
in memory of
Alice Hopkinson
who lost her life on the Alps
Aug. 27th 1898 aged 23"
Inscription
"Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." (Lina and Alice grave)
Gravesite Details
On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
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