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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 13

One of the most, interesting buildings visited by the Non- Zealand bowlers while they were touring Scotland (says the London correspondent of the Christchurch "Press”) was the mausoleum of the Dukes of Hamilton at Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire. This has just been opened, and the bodies of fifteen dukes have been removed to the Bent Cemetery for reburial. Some time ago Che bodies of the last two dukea, the father and grandfather of the Marchionese of Graham, ware removed quietly and buried in the vaults at Brodrick Castle, in the Isle of Arran, which is a possession of the Hamiltons. Costing nearly three-quarters of a million, the famous mausoleum, had become unsafe through coalmining operations. The mausoleum a huge domed structure 120 feet high, was built by the tenth Duke of Hamilton for himself, his son, grandson, and nine predecessors, who rest, in crimson coffins. He used to retttr with pride to the grand spectacle there would be when twelve Dukes of Hamilton rwo together at the Resurrection.