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On May 3 he " saw Sir W. Collins on University 



of London business." It was his last effort at 



anything like public work; and on the 10th he 



writes : " Got out for a turn in the garden. Have 



gone through a time of much suffering." The 



entry of the following day records the coming of 



the Grant Duffs to Grosvenor Street and the birth 



of another Grant Duff grandchild — and that 



record is the last. 



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He died sixteen days after the date of this 

 last entry, at 3 a.m. of May 28, 1913. His mind 

 was absolutely clear up to the last two days, when 

 he became, as it seemed, unconscious to all his 

 surroundings excepting Lady Avebury, whose 

 hand he held and kissed, while he smiled — with 

 that wonderfully kind expression which his face 

 never lost — again and again all the last day of his 

 life. 



He had been most anxious to be moved to 

 Kingsgate, and on the 22nd, by the doctor's 

 consent, had made the journey by motor. He 

 stood the fatigue well, though he was very weak, 

 and twice that night said that it had been worth 

 the effort. On the Friday a bed was made up 

 for him in the cloisters, and he was carried down 

 to it in time to hear the new clock, which had 

 been put up in the courtyard, strike eleven. It 

 had been a joint present to him from some of the 

 family, on his 79th birthday, and he was much 

 pleased with the tone of its strike. He stayed 

 out, on the bed in the cloisters, till five in the 

 afternoon, but in the evening he began to fail 

 rapidly. He grew restless if Lady Avebury left 



