page_title: Samuel Romilly
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Romilly / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Knill, Herefordshire, seen from the southeast
context_page_description: Sir Samuel Romilly, was a British lawyer, politician and legal reformer. From a background in the commercial world, he became well-connected, and rose to public office and a prominent position in Parliament. After an early interest in radical politics, he built a career in chancery cases, and then turned to amelioration of the British criminal law.
context_section_description: On 29 October 1818 Lady Romilly died in the Isle of Wight. A few days later, on 2 November 1818, Romilly cut his throat, and died in a few minutes, in his house on Russell Square in London. His nephew Peter Mark Roget attended him in his final moments. His last words were written: My dear, I wish ... presumably regarding his late wife. 
  Romilly was buried on 11 November 1818 at the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Knill, Herefordshire, with his wife Ann.
caption: Parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Knill, Herefordshire, where Ann and Samuel Romilly were buried
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