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to have enjoyed a reasonably comfortable life style.
Richard Suter’s work probably made him as well off as
other microscopists of the time, and he had no wife and
children to support, so that others in the family
presumably shared the fruits of his labour.

A sad end

By the time he died, Richard was long past any
mounting activity, and - judging by his handwriting
around 5 years before his death – probably blind. He
died intestate, and lies buried in a pauper’s common
grave in the northern section of Tottenham graveyard,
with no headstone or marker of any sort. By the time
he died, he had only two surviving siblings – Daisy, at
Highweek Road, and William, who was mentally
retarded and living in a Salvation Army home. His
brother Thomas had died 10 years earlier, in 1949, and
various other family members had emigrated to the
USA and Canada. Someone – we do not know who –
must have paid the four guineas burial fee. He died,
not at home, but in St. Ann’s General Hospital.