Suicide. William Wynn Westcott

in circumstances, it was decided that she should earn her own living.

      Beresford, Lord James, 1841.

      Munster, Earl of, 1842, son of William IV.

      Blanchard, Laman, 1845, journalist.

      Haydon, B. R., 1846, painter, on account of money troubles, shot himself.

      Praslin, Duc de, 1847, his wife was found murdered; he was arrested on suspicion, and was found self-slain in prison.

      Watts, Walter, 1850, Lessee of the Olympic Theatre.

      Bourg, St. Edme, 1851, author; found strangled by his scarf.

      Layard, Lieut.-Col., 1853, of “Nineveh” fame.

      Robinson, Rev. T., 1854, threw himself off the cliffs at Dover.

      Franks, Dr., 1855, editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung, after killing his son.

      Sadleir, John, M.P., 1856, by prussic acid, when found guilty of Bank frauds.

      Smart, A., 1856, a watchmaker, threw himself down from the Whispering Gallery in St. Paul’s.

      Miller, Hugh, 1856, geologist, from overwork.

      Russell, Chas., 1856, Chairman of the Great Western Railway.

      Moser, Isaac, 1861, a millionaire Jew.

      Fitzroy, Admiral, 1865, meteorologist.

      Green, G. W., 1867, a merchant, jumped off Suspension Bridge at Clifton.

      Warder, Dr. A. W., 1867, at Brighton, after murdering his wife.

      Theodore, Emperor of Abyssinia, 1868.

      Lee, Thomas, 1868, threw himself from the North Tower of the Crystal Palace.

      Prevost-Paradol, 1870, French Minister.

      Bowley, R. K., 1870, Manager of the Crystal Palace.

      Matthiessen, Dr., 1870, eminent chemist.

      Willes, Sir James S., 1872, eminent judge, from overwork.

      Delawarr, Earl, 1873, when insane.

      Abdul Aziz, 1876, Sultan of Turkey, veins of the bend of the arm opened by scissors.

      Lyttleton, Lord George, 1876, eminent scholar, when insane.

      Butcher, Dr. Sam., 1876, Bishop of Meath, when insane.

      Brandon, Raphael, 1877, architect.

      Mahomed, Ismail Khan, 1883, an Afghan surgeon, by prussic acid.