Part 17 (1/2)

In 1892 his professional career was drawing to a close In that year he received the heartiest recognition that France could give to his work, when he went there officially to represent the Royal Society at the Pasteur celebration A great gathering of scientists and others, presided over by President Carnot, caether at the Sorbonne to honour Pasteur's seventieth birthday It was a drahbours love, when the two illustrious felloorkers embraced one another in public, and the audience rose to the occasion To be acclai honour; but a year later fortune dealt him a blow from which he never recovered His wife, his constant companion and helper, was taken ill suddenly at Rapallo on the Italian Riviera, and died in a few days; and Lister's life was sadly changed

He was still considerably before the public for another decade He did much useful work for the Royal Society, of which he becan Secretary in 1893 and President from 1895 to 1900 He visited Canada and South Africa, received the freedoh in 1898 and of London in 1907, and in 1897 he received the special honour of a peerage, the only one yet conferred on a medical man He took an active interest in the discoveries of Koch and Metchnikoff, preserving to an advanced age the capacity for accepting new ideas He was largely instru the Institute of Preventive Medicine now established at Chelsea and called by his naeon was complete before death separated hian to fail, and for the last nine years of his life, at London or at Waleneral society and lived the life of an invalid

[Illustration: WILLIAM MORRIS

Fro by G F Watts in the National Portrait Gallery]

In 1912 he passed away by alrees, in his home by the sea, and by his own request was buried in the quiet cemetery of West Hampstead where his wife lay A public service was held in Westminster Abbey, and a portrait medallion there preserves the memory of his features The patient toil, the even temper, the noble purpose which inspired his life, had achieved their goal--he was a national hero as truly as any states to his nature he wished his body to lie in a hurave, he deserved full well to have his name preserved and honoured in our most sacred national shrine

WILLIAM MORRIS

1834-96

1834 Born at Walthae

1853-5 Exeter College, Oxford

1856 Studies architecture under Street

1857 Red Lion Square; influence of D G Rossetti

1858 _Defence of Guenevere_

1859 Marries Miss Jane Burden

1860-5 'Red House', Upton, Kent

1861 Firm of Art Decorators founded in Queen Square, Bloomsbury

(Dissolved and refounded 1875) 1867-8 _Life and Death of Jason_ 1868-70 _Earthly Paradise_

1870 Tenant of Kelmscott Manor House, on the Upper Thaas

1876 _Sigurd the Volsung_

1878 Tenant of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith

1881 Works moved to Merton

1883-4 Active member of Social Democratic Federation

1884-90 Founder and active ue

1891 Kel of Kelmscott _Chaucer_

1896 Death at Hammersmith, October 3

1896 Burial at Kelmscott, Oxfordshi+re

WILLIAM MORRIS

CRAFTSMAN AND SOCIAL REFORMER

In general it is difficult to account for the birth of an original man at a particular place and tiift of nature, given altogether silently, received altogether silently' Of his childhood history has al to relate, and what is true of Shakespeare is true in large e when records are more common, we can only discern a little and can explain less of the silent influences at work that begin tothan that, in an age given up chiefly to industrial developiven birth to John Ruskin and Willias fro known of his ancestry to explain his rich and various gifts