This weekend we mark an anniversary that brought to an end the Brontë line, an end to the house of Brontë lineage. Patrick Brontë died on June 7th 1861 in Haworth, where he had served as Church of England curate for over 40 years. It was in some ways his great tragedy that he lived so long, as he had outlived his wife and all six of his children. When he died, his son-in-law Arthur Bell Nicholls was by Patrick’s side, the widower of his third daughter Charlotte Brontë.
