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FELIX See also: English See also: art See also: collector and See also: patron, was See also: born at See also: Lambeth, See also: London, in See also: August 1790, the son of Robert See also: Slade, a Surrey landowner, from whom he inherited considerable means
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He became widely known as a purchaser of books and engravings, and made a valuable collection of See also: glass
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He died unmarried on the 29th of See also: March 1868, leaving personalty to the value of £164,000
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He bequeathed the bulk of his art collection to the
See also: British Museum, and £35,000 for the endowment of art professorships, to be known as Slade Professorships, at See also: Oxford,
Cambridge, and University See also: College, London
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University College received the additional bequest of six art scholarships
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