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and converted some old quarries into terraces and wonderful 
gardens. His stables, cowhouses, and cattle troughs were 
models, and he had an iron billiard table, remarkable for its 
true surface and great strength and solidity. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857, 
and the degrees of LL.I). Dublin, and D.C.L. Oxford, were 
conferred upon him about the same time. At the Paris 
Exhibition, 1867, he received one of the five great prizes 
given to England. In September, 1868, the Emperor 
Napoleon III. made him a member of The Legion of 
Honour. In 1869 he was created a Baronet. 
He was twice married, first in 1825, to a daughter of Mr. 
Joseph Ankers, she died in 1870, and in 1871 he married 
the widow of Mr. Alfred Orrel, of Stockport. 
Sir Joseph Whitworth died on Saturday, January 22nd, 
1887, at Monte Carlo, where he had been in the habit of 
wintering for some years past. 
The Council considers it desirable to continue the system 
of electing sectional associates, and a resolution on the 
subject will be submitted to the Annual General Meeting 
for the approval of the members. 
