Enriqueta Augustina Rylands supporters of the Library and unveiled on 9 December 1907, a few months before her death. In later life she was affected by rheumatic symptoms and spent frequent periods convalescing overseas. In 1894, she purchased a villa in Torquay where she died 14 years later on 4 February 1908. Following her funeral in Stretford, Manchester, she was cremated and the ashes interred in the vault where her husband had been buried twenty years earlier in the Southern Cemetery, Manchester. Enriqueta Augustina Rylands Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (31 May 1843 – 4 February 1908) was an Anglo-Cuban philanthropist who founded the John
Robert Rylands' Last Journey Robert Rylands' Last Journey Robert Rylands' Last Journey () is a Spanish-British film directed by Gracia Querejeta that premiered on 18 October 1996. It was the director's second feature film. Her script is a loose adaptation of the novel "" by Javier Marías, which the novelist repudiated. The subsequent controversy ended with a lawsuit, which resulted in a indemnification towards the writer and an order to withdraw his name from the credits of the film. Robert Rylands, a seductive archaeologist and university professor aged 60, voluntarily presents himself to testify at the police station. His story to the deputy, which