Sir William Strickland

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“He would diligently play
On the Zoetrope all day,
And blow the gay Pantechnicon all night.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)