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    The Late Me. Geoege Clowes.

    the progress of the century . The moYement of the diffusing of literature among the people

    had no more zealous supporter than William Clowes . For fourteen years The Penny

    Magazine and The Penny Cyclopaedia were issued from his press , publications which may

    be said to have set in motion among the people the modern impulse of learning , which has

    been so worthily upheld by the Chambers' , John Cassell , and others .

    Mr . Greorge Clowes , who has just passed to the majority , was the last surviving son of

    William Clowes . The year of his birth , as we have stated , was 1814 . After being educated

    at Mr . Lord ' s school ( a seminary then very well known ) at Tooting , and at London

    University College , the intention was that the young student should become a barrister ;

    but , relinquishing thq purpose of entering the overcrowded ranks at the Bar , he sensibly

    adopted his father ' s business , in which the connection was very widely and rapidly

    extending . In 1837 he married the eldest daughter of Charles Knight . In Mr . Knight ' s

    schemes for the diffusion of knowledge , the Times remarks , Mr . Clowes took the greatest

    interest , and he was invariably consulted by his father-in-law in all his large undertakings .

    The intimate friendship that existed between 1 Mr . Kn ght and Douglas Jerrold , Charles

    Dickens , and others of that school , was extended naturally to Mr . Clowes , whose genial

    ^ - -. - manner , ready wit , and general interest in literature , rendered him an acquisition to their

    -a . many pleasant meetings . Mr . Clowes took a prominent part in the 1851 Exhibition , in the

    production of the catalogues and other official publications , and had the honour of presenting

    copies of the catalogue to the Queen and Prince Consort .

    He took great interest , the Times also says , in the scheme for producing A *~ S the present -A- Law

    Reports . When , in 1863 , the Bar resolved to set on foot a better system of law reporting , and

    were in some difficulty as to the financial part of the undertaking , they appealed to Mr . Clowes

    for assistance , and he undertook the business in question . According to the Bar scheme , a

    sum of £ 10 , 000 was to be - —* guaranteed for pay r - ment of reporters and other expenses before

    the council appointed by the Bar to arrange the matter could proceed with the

    arrangements . The actual subscriptions did not amount to the specified sum , and Mr . Clowes

    offered on behalf of his firm to make good whatever number of subscriptions might be

    ' required to raise the sum of £ 10 , 000 , so as technically to satisfy the terms of the Bar

    scheme . Theae terms were at once accepted . The offer proved to be merely precautionary , / TVTV . . — . . — .... ¦ ¦— . _——¦ i .... .,. . . . .....

    The Late Me. Geoege Clowes.

    many many and was yea year never rs s aaunur auditor acted to to on the ine . ijr G Mr uil uii . d Clowe of oi f 1 , oVr was er f 0 I II

    , —a scheme which , it will be remembi jd I of great interest to the late Lord Lyt n ^ v ] r

    , ^ gave historical at Kneb banquet — worth to what celebrate is now the op a ! , unVj st . an f

    the almshouses at Stevenage . Mr . M .-v . Ve v o » i L s took an active part in the printing h sil 38

    till within the last year . The deceased tieman was a member of the Royal Insti n

    of the Geographical Society , of the Soc jf Arts , and of the Alpine Club .

    It is superfluous to refer to Mr . Clowes 11 . known business capacity , or to the deep iL est

    which he invariably took in the surroundings of the printer ' s calling . Such attributes are

    as familiar as his intimate associations ith many public affairs devised for the progress

    and advantage of the country . No one , however , who had not the privilege m . O

    of Mr . Clowes' acquaintance could fully comprehend the kindness of Ms disposition and

    the thoroughness of his motives . His memory will ever be pleasant and cheerful to his

    friends . Naturally in the home circle the loss will be severely felt ; for his lovable

    disposition was there seen in its warmest light . Sincere sympathy must be felt for the family

    which has lost so good a guardian , of whom a friend friftnd "has has said said . * his "his temper temnfir was was so so good ffood ana and

    , his bearing so genial that I doubt his having ever made an enemy . '

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    will be y chieflfor his intense veneration Jiiul y love in in which ini of Shakspear he acted tC / e , and the of admirable the leading wi manner /'''' -S

    wji no « n _; UL some ouiiic ui ujio ica "« <> comedy and tragedy , that he will be rum ^ n * b IU » ered C ; XCiM . ; j ( and XIXVL his 111 O sp O ^ 1 lendid C 311 U . JHA management llJLCHia . ^^ i * ^** hteen " w

    Sadler years , ' wi s Wells ll always , during remain a a period monument of eig to im b '

    memor r personations ¥ i » t » i / ¦ \ r y - » 7 . Great IT-Y' of cm'f , Shakspeare howeve hMurai 7 D r , ' s as oa creations were xxroYf * Ins IllS , tbettj II" - " were h ^ ivj vuiivji other characters U / LJ . « jA c *^> v / ojl o in ixa which n iiivjii he **\ jexcite admiiitllU

    just Notable as great these and unbounded was Sir Pertinax « M < ; lc hant among in the ' Man of the Worl

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Nov. 15, 1886, page 1364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15111886/page/6/