By-and-by that too
became impossible. His voice grew weak, throat and tongue were
threatened with disease. In 1888 he went to Brighton with a nurse,
returned to rooms on Richmond Hill, then to Bayswater Terrace. An
operation was performed and he seemed to recover, but relapsed.
Old friends tended him: Madame Novikoff, Mr. Froude and Mr. Lecky,
Madame de Quaire and Mrs. Brookfield, Lord Mexborough his ancient
fellow-traveller, Mrs. Craven, Sir William and Lady Gregory, with a
few more, cheered him by their visits so long as he was able to
bear them; and his brother and sister, Dr. and Mrs. Hamilton
Kinglake, were with him at the end. Patient to the last, kind and
gentle to all about him, he passed away quietly on New Year's Day,
1891:
"being merry-hearted,
Shook hands with flesh and blood, and so departed."
His remains were cremated at Woking, after a special service at
Christchurch, Lancaster Gate, attended by Dr. and Mrs. Kinglake
with their son Captain Kinglake, the Duke of Bedford, Mr. and Mrs.
Lecky, Mrs. W. H. Brookfield and her son Charles.
No good portrait of him has been published.
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