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The Times Great Victorian Lives An Erain Obituaries

GENERAL EDITOR: IAN BRUNSKILL EDITED BY PROFESSOR ANDREW SANDERS

Страница 1 The Times Great Victorian Lives An Erain Obituaries Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Ian Brunskill Obituaries Editor of The Times Professor Andrew Sanders THOMAS ARNOLD Pioneer educator and historian: ‘A death more to be mourned as a public loss…could scarcely have occurred.’ 15 JUNE 1842 FELIX MENDELSSOHN Composer: ‘He will be lamented wherever his name was known or his art be loved.’ 4 NOVEMBER 1847 GEORGE STEPHENSON Inventor and engineer: The ‘Father of Railways.’ 12 AUGUST 1848 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet: ‘Few poets have exercised greater influence in his own country.’ 23 APRIL 1850 SIR ROBERT PEEL Politician: ‘One of the most sagacious statesmen that England ever produced.’ 2 JULY 1850 J. M. W. TURNER, R. A. Artist: ‘Mastering every mode of expression, combining scientific labour with an air of negligent profusion.’ 19 DECEMBER 1851 ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL Engineer: ‘born an engineer.’ 15 SEPTEMBER 1859 ROBERT STEPHENSON Engineer: ‘His heart was worthy of his head.’ 12 OCTOBER 1859 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Novelist and humourist: ‘He…shrouded an over tender heart in a transparent veil of cynicism.’ 24 DECEMBER 1863 NICHOLAS, CARDINAL WISEMAN First Archbishop of Westminster: ‘the only [English Roman Catholic] who had earned for himself a wide and lasting reputation for ability and learning.’ 15 FEBRUARY 1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN American statesman: ‘a singular depth of insight.’ 15 APRIL 1865 LORD PALMERSTON Statesman: ‘There was never a statesman who more truly represented England.’ 18 OCTOBER 1865 MICHAEL FARADAY Natural scientist: ‘Disinterested zeal and lofty purity of life.’ 25 AUGUST 1867 CHARLES DICKENS Novelist: ‘There was always a lesson beneath his mirth.’ 9 JUNE 1870
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE American soldier: ‘one of the noblest soldiers who have ever drawn a sword in a cause which they believed just.’ 12 OCTOBER 1870 CHARLES BABBAGE, F. R. S. Mathematician: ‘The Father of the Computer.’ 18 OCTOBER 1871 EMPEROR NAPOLEON III Emperor of the French: ‘History will find much to reproach him with, but it is certain his contemporaries have been very unjust to him.’ 9 JANUARY 1873 WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY Actor: ‘A deep and subtle insight into the shades and peculiarities of character.’ 27 APRIL 1873 DAVID LIVINGSTONE Missionary and explorer: ‘Fallen in the cause of civilization and progress.’ 1 MAY 1873 JOHN STUART MILL Philosopher and political theorist: ‘the most candid of controversialists.’ 8 MAY 1873 SIR EDWIN LANDSEER Painter: ‘His paintings are known…through the length and breadth of the land.’ 1 OCTOBER 1873 {buyButton}

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