Before leaving Western Australia, Sir Frederick Napier Broome
had already developed diabetes. It was finally diagnosed in mid-1896, by which time he was rapidly deteriorating. Diagnosis brought no hope of cure. By the time he...
Cultural formation
Mary Anne Barker
Brought up in the Church of England
, she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died,
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.