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CHAPTER X

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PRIVATE LIFE AND DEATH.

Leading events of his life--General habits of work--Domesticity and privacy of life--Acquaintances and friendships--Distaste of publicity--Leading features of character--Personal appearance--Failure of health--Death--Funeral in Westminster Abbey--Erection of Memorial Statue--Conclusion 323

APPENDIX.

(A.) List of Architectural Designs 355

(B.) Letter to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort as to the South Kensington Scheme 358

(C.) Papers on the Remuneration Controversy 369

(D.) List of Subscribers to the Memorial Statue 405

ERRATA. (Corrections made by etext transcriber.)

Page 109, line 23, _for_ “Berkshire” _read_ “Hampshire.”

Page 147, line 12, _for_ “November” _read_ “December.”

Pages 195, 196, transpose paragraphs beginning “As soon as,” &c., and “The first aid,” &c.

Page 259, line 32, _for_ “twenty-five” _read_ “twenty-nine,” and _for_ “thirty” _read_ “forty-three.”

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PORTRAIT OF SIR CHARLES BARRY _Frontispiece._

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1. Plan of Travellers’ Club 82

2. View of Travellers’ Club 82

3. Plan of Reform Club 93

4. View of Reform Club 95

5. Plan of Bridgewater House 97

6. View of Bridgewater House 98

7. View of Halifax Town Hall 103

8. College of Surgeons (as altered) 106

9. Plan of Walton House 109

10. Highclere House before alteration 110

11. Highclere House after alteration 110

12. Board of Trade before alteration 111

13. Board of Trade after alteration 112

14. Plan of Trentham Hall 113

15. View of Trentham Hall 114

16, 17. Views of Shrubland Park and Gardens 119

18. Plan of Cliefden House 121

19. View of Cliefden House 121

20. View of Birmingham Grammar School 130

21. Plan of Birmingham Grammar School 131

22. Plan of Canford Manor 137

23. View of Canford Manor 137

24. View of Gawthorpe Hall 139

25. Plan of New Palace of Westminster 238

26. General View of River Front 251

27. View of Victoria Tower 254

28, 29, 30. Plans of Clumber House 269

31, 32. Views of Clumber House (as existing, and as proposed) 270

33. View of Crystal Palace (as existing) 284

34. View of Crystal Palace (as proposed) 284

35. Plan of Pall Mall Continuation (as proposed) 286

36. Plan of proposed Extension of New Palace at Westminster, to enclose New Palace Yard 292

37. View of the same from Great George Street 292

38. Lithographed Plan of proposed Westminster Improvements (_in pocket_) _see_ 294-299

39. Facsimile of drawing of the same (_in pocket_) _see_ 294-299

MEMOIR

OF

SIR CHARLES BARRY, R.A.

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