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and took great interest in the re-arrangement of the School consequent 

 upon its removal to Horsham. 



In recognition of his services to education, he was made an 

 Honorary Fellow of the College of Preceptors. He was made an 

 Honorary D.Sc. at the Tercentenary of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1892. 



On Monday, October 6, 1902, he had attended a Meeting of the 

 Christian Evidence Society, and returned to his residence in 

 Pembridge Square, in his usual health, at about 6 p.m. At 7.30 his 

 body was found, lifeless, in his study. He had been stricken with 

 heart-failure. He was buried, on the following Friday, in Kensal 

 Green Cemetery. 



He was twice married. His first wife died in 1864, in which year 

 he lost also his eldest daughter and only son. His second wife, 

 Margaret, to whom he was married in 1869, was the daughter of the 

 late Rev. Dr. King and a niece of Lord Kelvin's. 



A man of singular modesty ; quiet, gentle, and unobtrusive ; 

 urbane, courteous, and conciliatory in manner ; earnest in well-doing ; 

 helpful and considerate to others, and of transparent integrity ; his 

 kindly genial presence will long be missed in those gatherings of men 

 of science in which he found, during upwards of half a century, the 

 great pleasure of his life. 



T. E. T. 



SIR WILLIAM CHANDLER ROBERTS-AUSTEN, K.C.B. 

 18431902. 



Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, K.C.B., who died on 

 November 22, 1902, was born in 1843. His father, George Roberts, 

 was of Welsh descent, whilst his mother, Maria Louisa, belonged to 

 the Kentish family of Chandler, which intermarried with the Austens. 

 In 1885, at the request of his uncle, the late Major Austen, J.P., of 

 Haffenden and Camborne, in Kent, he obtained Royal licence to take 

 the name of Austen. 



At the age of 18 he entered the Royal School of Mines, with the 

 intention of becoming a mining engineer, but after obtaining the 

 Associateship of the School he was engaged by Graham, then Master 

 of the Mint, in the capacity of a private assistant. On Graham's 

 death, in 1869, the Department was reorganised in accordance with 

 the provisions of the Coinage Act of the following year, and in 

 conformity with the recommendations of the Royal Commission 

 which had been appointed to inquire into the administration of the 



