Died in a carriage accident is in Accident.
On 20th June 1632 Miles Hobart [aged 37] died having been fatally injured in a carriage accident on Holborn Hill.
On 25th September 1696 Bishop Robert Grove [aged 62] died in a carriage accident. He was buried in Chichester Cathedral [Map].
On 13th August 1758 Diana Egerton Baroness Baltimore [aged 27] died in a carriage accident. She fell out of a Phaeton carriage while accompanied by her husband who was suspected of foul play but no charges were brought.
On 12th September 1779 Richard Grenville-Temple 2nd Earl Temple [aged 67] died in a carriage accident without surviving issue. His nephew George [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Temple, 4th Viscount Cobham.
On 20th February 1785 Rowland Winn 5th Baronet [aged 45] died in a carriage accident. His son Rowland [aged 9] succeeded 6th Baronet Winn of Nostel in Yorkshire.
On 6th February 1819 Henry Crewe 7th Baronet [aged 56] died in a carriage accident. He was thrown from his carriage during a journey from Marylebone, London to Barham (Boreham) House, Hertfordshire. His son George [aged 24] succeeded 8th Baronet Harpur of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire.
On 7th December 1847 Mary Lennox [aged 57] and Charles Chester Masters died in a carriage accident in Parramata, Western Sydney when they were thrown from their carriage which had hit a tree. At Parramatta Park, near the George Street ‘Tudor’ Gatehouse and Murray Gardens there is an obelisk erected nearly forty-one years after her death: "Erected to the memory of Lady Mary FitzRoy the wife of Sir Charles FitzRoy, the then governor of the Colony. And Charles Chester Masters, A.D.C. Lieut. H.M. 58th Regt. Who were accidentally killed by being thrown from their carriage against this tree on the 7th Dec 1847"
On 10th May 1849 Marianne Beckett Lady Whichcote died in a carriage accident.
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On 23rd July 1875 Oscar Folsom died in a carriage accident. President Grover Cleveland [aged 38], her future husband, was appointed guardian of his daughter Frances Clara Folsom [aged 11] .
On 3rd August 1901 William Hicks-Beach [aged 74] died in a carriage accident. The day before he was severely injured when the horse of the Hansom cab in which he was riding stumbled onto an unguarded roadworks trench while attempting to avoid a bus on Parliament Street. Beach and the driver of the cab were thrown onto the road, and Beach was taken, unconscious, to Westminster Hospital. He woke around three hours later, and was noted to have suffered several head injuries, including a concussion and several abrasions. After appearing to slowly recover, he succumbed to his injuries the following night, aged 74. An inquiry was opened into his death the following week, and a verdict of accidental death was returned.