Things to be Remembered in Daily Life: With Personal Experiences and RecollectionsTimbs, John
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Things to be Remembered in Daily Life: With Personal Experiences and Recollections
Timbs, John
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Dr. Lingard, the Historian, died 1851, aged 82. In 1859, Hallam, the
historian; same year, Elphinstone, the historian of India, aged 81.
John Britton, the Topographer and antiquary, who died 1857, had
reached 86: he was cheerful and chirping almost to the end. His
brother topographer, Brayley, died 1854, aged 85. John Adey Repton,
the architect and archæologist, died 1860, aged 86; Joseph Hunter,
archæologist, 1861, 78.
Kirby, the Entomologist, who died 1860, had reached 91. Professor
Jameson, the naturalist, died 1854, aged 81. Brunel, the engineer of
the Thames Tunnel, died 1849, aged 81. Captain Manby, who invented
apparatus for saving shipwrecked persons, and who died 1854, had
reached 89. Sir John Ross, the Arctic navigator, died 1856, at 79.
The chemists, Andrew Ure, at 79, and Thenard, at 80, died 1857.
Baron Humboldt, who died 1859, reached 92; same year, Sir G.
Staunton, the Chinese scholar, at 79. Colonel Leake, the geographer,
1860, at 83; and in the same year Carl Ritter, the geographer, 81;
and Bishop Rigaud, astronomer, 85.
In 1858 died an unusually large number of Men of Science and
Letters, and Artists, at great ages. Count Radetzsky, at 92;
Creuzer, the German antiquary, 87; Thomas Tooke, political
economist, 85; three musical composers, Neukomm, 80; J. B. Cramer,
88; and Horsley, 84;—Esenbach, botanist, 82; Aimé de Bonpland, 85;
Robert Brown, botanist, 84; Bunting, Wesleyan preacher, 80; Mrs.
Marcet, educational writer, 89; Edward Pease, “the Father of
Railways,” 92; Robert Owen, socialist, 87; Richard Taylor, of the
_Philosophical Magazine_, 77.
In 1860 we lost the following eminent Engineers: Vicat (France),
aged 75; General Pasley, 80; Eaton Hodgkinson, 72; Sir Howard
Douglas, 86. In 1862 there died General Tulloch, at 72; and James
Walker, at 81; and in 1860, Jesse Hartley, 80.
Charles Macklin, the oldest English Actor and playwright, who died
1797, had reached the age of 107: for his last twenty years he never
took off his clothes, except to change them, or to be rubbed over
with warm brandy or gin; he ate, drank, and slept without regard to
set times, but according to his inclination.
M. Delphat, the French Musician, who died 1855, had reached 99; and
in the same year died Robert Linley, the violoncellist, at 83. John
Braham lived far beyond the usual age of singers, namely, to his 82d
year: he died February 17, 1856; he first sung in public when ten
years old. Ludwig Spohr, the German composer, died 1859, at 80.
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