A.E.Waite (1857-1942)

A. E. Waite, we are told, died in 1942. This appears to be fact.
Does anyone know the date, location, and cause of his death?

The first website I found has his death at age 90...and birth in 1857...so that would be 1947...

This one places his death on May 19, 1942:

http://www.waitegenealogy.org/ROW/aewaite.htm

And this one...1942

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Hermeticism/Waite.html

and this May 19, 1942 again.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Arthur-Edward-Waite

See what you started....now I am wondering also...although May 19, 1942 seems to be listed as DOD in most of these referenes...

Don't think Kaplan had anything re cause of death either.

terri

My thoughts are, with no disrespect to Mr. Waite,
that scholarship has glossed over his final chapter.
Decker and Dummett offer nothing, nor it seems
have any other notable authorities, like S. Kaplan.

Another 1942 reference to burial site in Kent, England

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/aqc/waite/waite.html

Waite died in 1942 and was accorded a brief, three-paragraph obituary in The Freemasons' Chronicle (vol. 135, p. 178, 6 June 1942) in which he was characterized as a poet and writer on Freemasonry. There was no attempt to appraise his work or to state his primary thesis. He was buried in the churchyard at Bishopsbourne in Kent where he spent most of his later years, and his grave is now obscured by a thick growth of deadly nightshade — an appropriate parallel to the blight that has fallen on his reputation.

Full text of the same with better annotations:

http://www.mastermason.com/luxocculta/waite.htm#_ftnref111