The unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick - better known as the Elephant Man - has been traced after nearly 130 years, according to his biographer.
Merrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a medical curiosity, with his skeleton preserved at the Royal London Hospital.
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