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The etc c-Li;'ru'^eraent of the ceremony would presumably have
been ap reciated by the deceased. After a decent but brief
wido' hood, Beatrix Godwin was married to Vhistler on August
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The carcor of the Hon. Lo\vis Strange in^iield was more
varied and less distinguished than that of Godwin, By turns
ho v/ao actor, surgeon, painter, war oorrespundent, balloonist,
dr.-nr-tic critic, novelist, historian of dress and theatrical
designer. Educated with n view to the dinIon; tic service, he
took up acting and appeared as Koderigo in IT65 to £rn.
Aldridge'a Othello. For a v;hile he studied painting, and then
went to Antwerp to train as a surgeon. Returning to art h?
became a punil of the Parisian nr-inter Edouard Frere*During
the days of the Commune he distinguished himself by his energy
and devotion o.s a surgeon, and joined to this activity that of
v/nr correspondent to The Times and The Daily Telegraph, '-ie
returned to London, set up a studio at Maida Vale, arid, exhibited
paintings at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk Street Gallery.
At intorv,ils in his life he travelled in the near and far
orient, publishing accounts of his d^ontures, ,'Ie irvulccd in
a nu!:iber of •.'himsical erroerinonts, such rs a«-:onoinr tho Derby
in the guir.o of c nigger minctrel and beconing an attendant
at a madhouse iuid ;~ oricon* He also cpent exploratory nights
in v;orldiouces ana "pauper lodgings".
Under the pseudonym ".,'hytc Tyghe" ho -vroto drvvtic
notices for i'iic Globe, anf ho was recponsible, ^ropria po_:-conr,
for tho translation of Schiller's ilnria 3t .art used by ''[3:10
Iloc'^josl'a at the Court Theatre in 17-80. His moot successful
novel v;as the tliree-volume Lady Grig el; an Impression of a
.oi.iL'iitous opoch (I'.'VO), which dealt with incidents in tho life
of Elizabeth Ghudlcigh, Duchess of Kingston (172C-1788) - a
lady notable for- a life of ;?ro;::ir.:cuity and her auccosoful
trial on a eliar^c of bigamy. After a life no less crowded, but
less iii! ecorous tlion that of his heroine, 9,in.'-ficld died at
the age of forty-nine on Ilovcr.ber 12, 1891, of a di mace
contracted during his service as a v;ar correspondent on the
1884 Sudan canyaicn. The Korning Poet, in its obituary, described
him as "orientirlly a h:r-n of action", whose theatrical
work had shown a "singularly accurate" l-:nov/ledge of cortuno.