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=== Personal life === Ethel Florey's health deteriorated. She had [[hypertension]] and respiratory and heart problems, and walked with a stick. She travelled to Australia one more time in 1965 to give lectures on penicillin, but collapsed in Canberra and was hospitalised in Sydney. She recovered sufficiently to return to Oxford. When she found out that her son Charles was getting married at Fulton's house in New Haven in 1966, she wanted to attend. Florey refused to pay for this; if she collapsed in the United States the cost of medical care would be astronomical. Robert Webb, an American friend from the Cambridge days arranged for US$5,000 ({{Inflation|US|5000|1966|fmt=eq|r=-3}}) of insurance cover to allow her to attend.{{sfn|Macfarlane|1979|pp=378β379}}{{sfn|Bickel|1995|pp=24, 284β285}} She died in Oxford on 10 October 1966.<ref name="ADB" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106941294 |title=Obituary β Pioneer of use of penicillin |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=41 |issue=11,511 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=18 October 1966 |accessdate=20 February 2023 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=25 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231025105249/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106941294 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 6 June 1967, Florey married Margaret Jennings at the Old Register Office in [[St Giles', Oxford]], in a ceremony deliberately kept as quiet as possible. The only other persons present were Jim Kent and Cecilia Little, Jennings's housekeeper, who acted as witnesses. There was a small celebration in Florey's rooms at Queen's College and they honeymooned in the Caribbean before visiting Fulton in New Haven.{{sfn|Williams|1984|p=373}}{{sfn|Lax|2015|p=259}}
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