3-078-168 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. Lewis Filmore, 1890. 'One of the last surviving members of that able editorial staff which the Times had in its service...has passed from this world, after a long retirement enforced by broken health...teaching himself Latin, French, and German, [he] produced, before he was twenty years of age, the best verse translation of Goethe's "Faust" that had been made...He came to London as reporter for the Sun, Murdo Young's evening paper, but was soon engaged by the Times...In the earliest years of the Illustrated London News he was a constant and valued contributor to our pages. In 1848, on the outbreak of the French Revolution, the sudden death of the Times' Paris correspondent occasioned an emergency; and Filmore was instantly sent to hold that post, from which he was transferred, for his knowledge of German, to the scene of war in Schleswig-Holstein...[In] 1852 he was sent as the Times' special correspondent to Australia, where he sojourned a year and a half, describing and commenting on the extraordinary changes in Melbourne and Sydney caused by the discovery of the goldfields...He was next appointed special correspondent in the United States...[and] wrote many of the leading articles on the Civil War'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.