Sir Henry Roscoe, F.R.S.

Abstract

BY the death of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, through heart-failure, on December 18, at his residence, Woodcote Lodge, West Horsley, we lose one more of that rapidly dwindling body of men of whom Huxley may be said to. be the type and leader, who spent their energies, after the passing of the Education Act of 1870, and largely in consequence of it, in attempting to rouse this country to a sense of the national importance of secondary and technical education. Except for occasional trouble with gout, and the slight infirmities of advanced age, he was in his usual state of good health and happy serenity of mind up to within the very hour of his seizure. It was such a passing as he would himself have desired; a swift and painless ending to a long, strenuous, and honourable career.