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==Death== [[File:Peter Pan statue by Diarmuid Byron O'Connor.JPG|thumb|upright|Callaghan's ashes were scattered in the flowerbed around the [[Peter Pan statue|''Peter Pan'' statue]] (pictured in 2008) at London's [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]] ]] Callaghan died on 26 March 2005, at the age of 92, at his home in [[Ringmer]], East Sussex,<ref>Blake, Aled (18 August 2005), [https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/a-lot-what-great-causes-2383872 {{"'}}A lot of what he did was for great causes when he retired from frontline politics' | This is how Britain's first millionaire socialist Prime Minister made and shared his wealth"], ''Wales Online''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425233224/https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/a-lot-what-great-causes-2383872 |date=25 April 2021 }} Retrieved 26/4/21.</ref> of [[lobar pneumonia]], [[cardiac failure]] and kidney failure. He died just one day before his 93rd birthday and 11 days after his wife of 67 years, who had spent the last four years of her life in a nursing home due to [[Alzheimer's disease]]. He died as Britain's longest-lived former prime minister, having surpassed [[Harold Macmillan]]'s record 39 days earlier. Callaghan died 4 months before former Prime Minister [[Edward Heath]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Lord Callaghan sets record|author-link=Patrick Wintour|first=Patrick|last=Wintour |author2=[[Julian Glover (journalist)|Julian Glover]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/feb/14/uk.past |access-date=27 January 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=14 February 2005 |archive-date=31 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131183659/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/feb/14/uk.past |url-status=live }}</ref> Lord Callaghan was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in a flowerbed around the base of the [[Peter Pan statue|''Peter Pan'' statue]] near the entrance of London's [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]], where his wife had formerly been chair of the [[board of governors]].<ref>{{cite web|title=James Callaghan|url=http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/james-callaghan|publisher=Westminster Abbey|access-date=11 September 2016|archive-date=18 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918064036/http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/james-callaghan|url-status=live}}</ref> His [[Order of the Garter]] Banner was transferred from [[St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]] to [[Llandaff Cathedral]] in [[Cardiff]] following his death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Garter Banner Locations |url=https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Garter-Banner-list-Oct-2018.pdf |website=St. George's Chapel Windsor |access-date=1 November 2021 |archive-date=2 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102021348/https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Garter-Banner-list-Oct-2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
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