Honours and Death
Travers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Travers lived into advanced old age but her health was declining towards the end of her life. She died in London in 1996 aged 96 reportedly caused by epileptic seizure delirium. Her son Camillus Travers Hone, grandson of Joseph and Vera Hone, died in London in November 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the words honours and/or death:
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)