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==Death== [[File:Monument at Whittington to Walsham How, 1st Bishop of Wakefield.jpg|thumb|Monument to Walsham How and his wife, in the Memorial Garden near St John The Baptist's Church at [[Whittington, Shropshire]].]] He died while on holiday in Ireland, on 10 August 1897 in Leenane, [[County Mayo]]. Although there is a marble memorial to him in [[Wakefield Cathedral]], he was buried in Whittington, Shropshire, where he had been rector for 28 years.<ref name=Cyberhymnal>{{cite web|title=William Walsham How|url=http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/h/o/w/how_ww.htm|work=Cyberhymnal|access-date=2013-11-08}}</ref> There is also a memorial plaque to him inside the London city church of St Helen's, [[Bishopsgate]], bearing the line "Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest" from his hymn, "[[For all the saints]]".<ref name=":DNB:" />
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