Last Years
He was elected President of the Ethnological Society in 1861. He died in South Kensington, London on 11 May 1868 at the age of 85.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“According to Fathers lexicon people who started on a job and didnt stay at it for 50 years were quitters. If you stayed 20 years and then shifted to more congenial work you were a drifter.”
—Richard Bissell (19131977)