Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1895: Or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the Year 1894
In the year 1873, Joseph Armfield was sad dened by the serious illness of his wife but after many anxious months She was favoured to recover, and in the spring of 1874, he removed her to a beautiful country residence near Croydon, where he had the joy of seeing her life prolonged for fifteen years. He continued to go up to business in the city until the end of his life and his keen enjoyment Of the country and rural pursuits made his return to this peaceful spot a perpetually re curring pleasure. He would always rise at or before six o'clock, and had an hour's work in the garden or houses, as weather permitted, before returning to his room for the quiet half-hour's time of devotion with his wife, which no press of engagements was ever permitted to curtail.
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