Page "John Soane" Paragraph 113

In 1815 an article was published in the Champion for 10 to 24 September entitled The Present Low State of the Arts in England and more particularly of Architecture.

In the article Soane was singled out for personal attack, although anonymous it soon emerged that his son George had written the article.

On 13 October Mrs Soane wrote ' Those are George's doing.

He has given me my death blow.

I shall never be able to hold up my head again '.

Soane's wife died on 22 November 1815, she had been suffering from ill health for some time.

His wife's body was interred on 1 December in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church.

He wrote in his diary for that day ' The burial of all that is dear to me in this world, and all I wished to live for !'.

George and Agnes had another child, this time a son born in 1815, Frederick.