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Title: The Annual monitor... or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Alexander, William, 1768-1841, ed Backhouse, Sarah, 1803-1877, ed Tuke, Samuel, 1784-1857, ed. cn Seebohm, Benjamin, 1798-1871, ed Seebohm, Esther Wheeler, 1798-1864, ed Sewell, Joseph Stickney, 1819-1900, ed Newby, John, 1806-1877, ed Robinson, William, 1832-1908, ed Knight, Francish Arnold, ed
Subjects: Quakers
Publisher: York, W. Alexander (etc., etc.,)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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on the part of the large audience consisting of
members of the Corporation and leading men
of business. And again in the year 1912, on the
occasion of Lord Haldane's installation as Chan-
cellor of the University of Bristol, that body
conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D.
Some years before his death J. S. Fry's
eyesight began to fail and he became practically
blind. This affliction he bore with exemplary
patience and cheerfulness, and he allowed it to
interfere as little as possible with his various
activities. It. the autumn of 1912 he had a
slight seizure whilst visiting the General Hospital,
and for the following months of his life he re-
mained in a feeble condition, which he bore
with unfailing gentleness and uncomplaining
submission.
The funeral of J. S. Fry was an occasion of a
remarkable expression of feeling on the part of
the inhabitants of Bristol, which in its volume
was surprising even to those who fully appreciated
the simplicity and the sincerity of his life. The
large Meeting House and graveyard at the
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EDWARD GARNETT

EDWARD GARNETT 77

Friars were filled by a vast concourse of people;
At the same time a memorial service was, by
the suggestion of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol
held at the Cathedral, which was also crowded
with an attentive audience, who listened to an
interesting tribute in the address of Arch-
deacon Tetley ; and similar services wore also
held in the chapels of the General Hospital and
the Convalescent Some on Durdham Down.
The companies thus collected comprised a very
large proportion of all the prominent citizens
of Bristol, and throughout the course of nearly
two miles from the residence of the deceased
to the burial ground at the Friars a vast number
of spectators showed by their reverent demeanour
the universal respect and affection in which his
memory was held.

EDWARD GARNETT . . . . 79 17 3 1913
Manchester. An Elder.
The son of Edward and Hannah Garnett,
Edward Garnett was born near Warrington in
1834, and educated at Penketh and Ackworth
Schools. Adopting teaching as a profession, he
served the usual lengthy apprenticeship to
Thomas Pumphrey, then Superintendent of,
Ackworth ; and passing on to the Flounders
Institute, went through a course of studies under
the principalship of Isaac Brown.

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