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He published his autobiography, Hollywood Hussar, in 1977. Loder's general health deteriorated in his eighties, and he was admitted in 1982 to the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association's Nursing Home in Vicarage Gate, Kensington. He went weekly by taxi to his London club, 'Bucks', in Mayfair, for luncheons. He died in London, aged 90, in 1988.
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He was a Member of the Church of England Foreign Relations Council and a long-standing member of the famous Travellers' Club in Pall Mall, London.Travellers' Club Membership Book, published 1992. Perowne's closing years were spent in the Distressed Gentlefolks' Aid Association's care home in Vicarage Gate, Kensington, London. He died in 1989 at Charing Cross Hospital in London aged 87 years old.
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Some of the most significant changes he made were alterations to Pamela's vocabulary: in the first edition her diction is that of a labouring-class woman, but in later editions Richardson made her more linguistically middle- class by removing the working-class idioms from her speech. In this way, he made her marriage to Mr. B less scandalous as she appeared to be more his equal in education. The greatest change was to have her his equal too in birth—by revising the story to reveal her parents as reduced gentlefolks. In the end Richardson revised and released fourteen editions of Pamela, the last of which was published in 1801 after his death.
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On 10 December 1868, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 a year. She was instrumental in founding the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton (now the Royal Brompton Hospital), the Governesses' Institute (presumably the School Mistresses and Governesses’ Benevolent Institution), the Home for Decayed Gentlewomen (see Elizabeth Finn Care formerly the Distressed Gentlefolks' Aid Association), and the Nightingale Fund (used to set up what is now the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery). Her benevolence was of the most practical nature; she worked for the temperance cause, for women's rights, and for the friendless and fallen. She was a friend to street musicians, and a thorough believer in spiritualism; but this belief did not prevent her from remaining a devout Christian.
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Each company supplies both rich and poor, both large houses and small; > there is no difference in the condition or occupation of the persons > receiving the water of the different companies...As there is no difference > whatever either in the houses or the people receiving the supply of the two > Water Companies, or in any of the physical conditions with which they are > surrounded, it is obvious that no experiment could have been devised which > would more thoroughly test the effect of water supply on the progress of > Cholera than this, which circumstances placed ready made before the > observer. The experiment too, was on the grandest scale. No fewer than three > hundred thousand people of both sexes, of every age and occupation, and of > every rank and station, from gentlefolks down to the very poor, were divided > into two groups without their choice, and, in most cases, without their > knowledge; one group being supplied water containing the sewage of London, > and amongst it, whatever might have come from the cholera patients, the > other group having water quite free from such impurity. Snow went on to study the water contents from each home through a test performed on each sample.
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