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Society of Antiquaries, and an honorary or corre- 

 sponding member of at least three-fourths of the 

 scientific and literary societies of the world. He 

 was also a distinguished numismatist, and an 

 indefatigable and prolific writer. His children, when 

 quite young, used to help him in any way in which 

 they could, cutting new books, and even in proof- 

 reading, when they were paid at the rate of a " penny 

 for four," for any mistakes in spelling, misplaced 

 letters, etc. 



Flower's work as a surgeon steadily increased, 

 and on April 15, 1858, his marriage took place at 

 Stone Church, he being then in his twenty-seventh 

 year, and his bride just twenty-three. " On the 

 1 5th inst., at Stone, near Aylesbury, Bucks, by the 

 Rev. Baden Powell, brother-in-law of the bride, 

 assisted by the Rev. W. Airy, Vicar of Keysoe, 

 and the Rev. J. B. Reade, Vicar of Stone, William 

 Henry Flower, second son of E. F. Flower, Esq., of 

 the Hill, Stratford-upon-Avon, to Georgiana Rosetta, 

 youngest daughter of Rear- Admiral Smyth, K.S.F., 

 D.C.L., and of St. John's Lodge, Stone." So runs 

 the Times paragraph. Flower and his bride left 

 for Dover, and spent the honeymoon in Flanders, 

 Brussels, Louvain, and thence went up the Rhine, 

 the first of a series of journeys abroad together 

 which formed an almost annual pleasure for very 

 many years. They repeated the honeymoon journey 

 after their silver wedding, twenty-five years later, 

 taking two of their children with them. 



