Personal Life
Follett married the eldest daughter of Sir Ambrose Harding Gifford, chief justice of Ceylon, in 1830. His health had begun to fail him in 1838, and had been permanently injured by a severe illness in 1841. In 1845 it broke down, and he was compelled to relinquish practice and to visit the south of Europe. He returned to England in March 1845; but the disease, tuberculosis, reasserted itself, and he died in London on the 28th of June following. A statue of Follett, executed by Behnes, was erected by subscription in Westminster Abbey.
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