John Thelwall is buried here after dying quietly on a lecture tour at the age of 70 in Bath in 1834. A radical, speaker, orator, Thelwell was forced to move away from London due to political views. Thelwall had resumed his career as an itinerant lecturer, appearing at literary and philosophical societies throughout the country. His subjects included ‘elocution, history, the classics, polite literature, impediments of speech &c.’, a representative course, dated 16 August 1832, comprised ten ‘Lectures, Elocutionary & Critical, on Milton in Particular, & the English Poets in General’. On 25 January 1834 Thelwall wrote cheerfully from Bristol, saying he was ‘as animate as ever’ on the platform. He also mentioned, however, an ‘unpleasant symptom of the chest’, that he was ‘less & less able to bear the exertion of walking’, and that he still endured his ‘astmha [sic], or whatever it is’.