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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Rich
in
honours
and
the
appreciation
of
his
contemporaries,
in
the
prime
of
his
working
power
and
influence
for
good,
and
at
the
very
climax
of
his
career,
Sir
William
Siemens
was
called
away.
The
news
of
his
death
came
with
a
shock
of
surprise,
for
hardly
any
one
knew
he
had
been
ill.
He
died
on
the
evening
of
Monday,
November
19,
1883,
at
nine
o'clock.
A
fortnight
before,
while
returning
from
a
managers'
meeting
of
the
Royal
Institution,
in
company
with
his
friend
Sir
Frederick
Bramwell,
he
tripped
upon
the
kerbstone
of
the
pavement,
after
crossing
Hamilton
Place,
Piccadilly,
and
fell
heavily
to
the
ground,
with
his
left
arm
under
him.
Though
a
good
deal
shaken
by
the
fall,
he
attended
at
his
office
in
Queen
Anne's
Gate,
Westminster,
the
next
and
for
several
following
days;
but
the
exertion
proved
too
much
for
him,
and
almost
for
the
first
time
in
his
busy
life
he
was
compelled
to
lay
up.
On
his
last
visit
to
the
office
he
was
engaged
most
of
the
time
in
dictating
to
his
private
secretary
a
large
portion
of
the
address
which
he
intended
to
deliver
as
Chairman
of
the
Council
of
the
Society
of
Arts.
This
was
on
Thursday,
November
8,
and
the
following
Saturday
he
awoke
early
in
the
morning
with
an
acute
pain
about
the
heart
and
a
sense
of
coldness
in
the
lower
limbs.
Hot
baths
and
friction
removed
the
pain,
from
which
he
did
not
suffer
much
afterwards.
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