In the following July the earl entertained the king and queen with much state at Knowsley.
Lear did not know where Knowsley was, or what it meant; but the old gentleman was the thirteenth Earl of Derby.
They had journeyed from Preston thitherwards; their intended route being for Knowsley, and so forward to the coast.
A few months later, on the 23rd of October 1869, he died at Knowsley.
Towards the end of November he was at Knowsley, from whence he communicated with the writer of these pages. '
