“ His opinions, or prejudices, made it, for instance, impossible for him to do justice to such a subject as the French Revolution and it effects; and his volume on "The New France" (1913) is not among his most urbane or sensible. Nevertheless, his vigorous manner was profitable in challenging thought when it could not persuade, and his essays and articles in the periodical Press were usually stimulating. During the war he used his pen doughtily on behalf of the Allies, and allowed no Ultramontanism to come between his vision and the truth.
In 1893 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse. ”

“ Mr. W. S. Lilly, who was well known as a writer on religious, political, and social subjects, died on August 29 at his residence in West Kensington.
William Samuel Lilly was the eldest son of William Lilly, of Windout House, near Exeter, and was born on July 10, 1840. In 1859 he was elected a scholar of Peterhouse, where he studied law, taking a third class in the Law Tripos and the degree of LL.B. in 1862, and his LL.M. in 1870. In 1861, after some private tuition from Sir A. W. Ward, now Master of Peterhouse, he passed into the Indian Civil Service, and in due course went to India. ”