Edward Knight's Family
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John Morland Rice continued.
... his wife's death: the judgment of his niece, Evelyn Templetown, remained true to the last, though the qualities she mentioned were naturally somewhat tempered by old age: 'One of the most brilliantly clever, charming and attractive people I ever knew'. He died, after a few days illness, while on a visit to his brother Ernest in Portsmouth Dockyard, on August 5th 1897. He was buried in Bramber Churchyard, beside his wife.' (Epitaph page 231)
– His niece, Miss Marcia Rice.
Portrait of John Morland Rice
John Morland Rice
Elizabeth Louisa Rice. [3]
Born in 1824.
Baptized at Tilmanstone, October 24th 1824.
'She was a very dear aunt to all the grandchildren who gathered round Dane Court. She was her mother's great ally and companion, while the other unmarried daughter devoted herself to her father. My grandmother and Aunt Lou were akin in their humour and wit, which was decidedly of the Austen type; of the fifteen sons and daughters, almost all of whom inherited the Knight wit, there were outstanding Aunt Lou (whose talk continually reminded one of Aunt Jane's books) and two of the sons, Augustus and Walter. Aunt Lou loved children and entered into all their doings with zest. Her humour was so constant that, as a niece who lived at Tilmanstone wrote, 'We were so accustomed to it that we thought nothing of it ...
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