British author, traveller, diplomat and christian mystic (1829-1888).
Born August 3rd, 1829 in Cape Town.
Died December 23rd, 1888 at 59 years old in York House.
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