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George Gray Millais

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George Gray Millais

Birth
Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Death
30 Aug 1878 (aged 20)
Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Burial
Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland Add to Map
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Died of Typhoid Fever, contracted while attending Cambridge.

- Contributor: D. Brown Love (46781225)

"Finally, on 30 August ... he died a fortnight before his twenty-first birthday. George was buried beside his grandfather in Kinnoull. Effie wrote to her sister Alice about the service. They agreed it was better that he should lie there in the churchyard, a stone's throw from Bowerswell, rather than among 'strangers in London': 'It is such a sweet little spot.' ..."

- Cooper, Suzanne Fagence. "Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais." St. Martin's Press, 2011
Died of Typhoid Fever, contracted while attending Cambridge.

- Contributor: D. Brown Love (46781225)

"Finally, on 30 August ... he died a fortnight before his twenty-first birthday. George was buried beside his grandfather in Kinnoull. Effie wrote to her sister Alice about the service. They agreed it was better that he should lie there in the churchyard, a stone's throw from Bowerswell, rather than among 'strangers in London': 'It is such a sweet little spot.' ..."

- Cooper, Suzanne Fagence. "Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais." St. Martin's Press, 2011


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