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Laurence Sterne
Novelist Laurence Sterne, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Following his death in London in 1768, Laurence Sterneās body was stolen by grave robbers and taken to Cambridge for an anatomy lecture. After the body was identified and returned to its original grave, it was eventually exhumed. His remains now rest in the churchyard at Coxwold, located near his former home, Shandy Hall.1