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KING EDWARD VII.
Or in the tender solicitude which he always displayed towards the old and superannuated: seeking out those who had been neglected, or passed over, and putting them in such positions of safety and comfort.
. . . . That they may again live in the past, and make their final exit in a spirit of thankfulness to God and their fellow creatures.
(1865)
This habit of kind thought reached even to those "beyond these voices," and in 1883 he moved a resolution "that the present condition of the British cemeteries in the Crimea is not creditable to us, and not creditable to a great country like ours, for I am sure we are the very first to do who fought in the name of their country."
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