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whom the eldest, the present Lord Avebury, 

 was just of age and had lately gone up to Oxford, 

 and three girls, of whom one, the eldest, as noted, 

 had been married in 1876 to Mr. Mulholland 

 and was now a widow. In 1882 the second 

 daughter, Constance, married Mr. Sydney (now 

 Lord) Buxton, and the third, Gertrude, has re- 

 mained unmarried, and has always taken a very 

 keen and valuable interest in such social 

 questions as the better organisation of charity 

 in London. 



Sir John writes, under date Sunday, Oct. 19 : 

 " In the middle of the night I was called up and 

 found Nelly in a sort of faint from which she 

 never rallied, and she passed away so quietly 

 that we did not know the exact moment. It is 

 a comfort to think that I have been with her 

 constantly during the last month." 



He did not go to the City again all the rest of 

 that year. 



