British-american academic (1811-1882).
Born May 5th, 1811 in St Helens.
Died January 4th, 1882 at 70 years old in Hastings-on-Hudson.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde