Editing Michael Faraday (section)

===Later life===
[[File:Three Fellows of the Royal Society offering the presidency o Wellcome L0022806.jpg|thumb|Three Fellows of the [[Royal Society]] offering the presidency to Faraday (right) in 1857]]
In June 1832, the [[University of Oxford]] granted Faraday an honorary [[Doctor of Civil Law]] degree. During his lifetime, he was offered a [[Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom|knighthood]] in recognition for his services to science, which he [[List of people who have declined a British honour|turned down]] on religious grounds, believing that it was against the word of the Bible to accumulate riches and pursue worldly reward, and stating that he preferred to remain "plain Mr Faraday to the end".<ref>West, Krista (2013). ''The Basics of Metals and Metalloids''. Rosen Publishing Group. {{ISBN|1-4777-2722-1}}. p. 81.</ref> Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society|Fellow]] of the [[Royal Society]] in 1824, he twice refused to become [[President of the Royal Society|President]].<ref>Todd Timmons (2012). "Makers of Western Science: The Works and Words of 24 Visionaries from Copernicus to Watson and Crick". p. 127.</ref> He became the first [[Fullerian Professor of Chemistry]] at the [[Royal Institution]] in 1833.<ref>{{cite news|title=Faraday appointed first Fullerian Professor of Chemistry|url=http://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2014/february/fact--faraday-appointment-fullerian-prof-of-chemistry|publisher=The Royal Institution|date=16 October 2017|access-date=16 October 2017|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805222946/https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2014/february/fact--faraday-appointment-fullerian-prof-of-chemistry|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1832, Faraday was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter F |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterF.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527025245/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterF.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2016 |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=15 September 2016 |page=159 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was elected a foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] in 1838. In 1840, he was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1840;year-max=1840;smode=advanced;startDoc=21|access-date=9 April 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was one of eight foreign members elected to the [[French Academy of Sciences]] in 1844.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Gladstone, John Hall|title=Michael Faraday|year=1872|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/michaelfaraday06gladgoog/page/n67 53]|url=https://archive.org/details/michaelfaraday06gladgoog|quote=Faraday French Academy.}}</ref> In 1849 he was elected as associated member to the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, which two years later became the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and he was subsequently made foreign member.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00000215 |title=M. Faraday (1791–1867) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Faraday House 37 Hampton Court Road KT8 9BW.jpg|thumb|left|Faraday House in [[Hampton Court]] where Faraday lived between 1858 and 1867]]
Faraday had a [[nervous breakdown]] in 1839 but eventually returned to his investigations into electromagnetism.<ref>Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). ''Chemical Achievers: The Human Face of the Chemical Sciences''. Chemical Heritage Foundation. {{ISBN|0-941901-12-2}}. p. 30.</ref> In 1848, as a result of representations by the [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Consort]], Faraday was awarded a [[grace and favour]] house in [[Hampton Court]] in Middlesex, free of all expenses and upkeep. This was the Master Mason's House, later called Faraday House, and now No. 37 Hampton Court Road. In 1858 Faraday retired to live there.<ref>[http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=197 "Twickenham Museum on Faraday and Faraday House"]; twickenham-museum.org.uk. Accessed 14 August 2014.</ref>

[[File:Faraday Michael grave.jpg|thumb|upright|Faraday's grave at [[Highgate Cemetery]], London]]
Having provided a number of various service projects for the British government, when asked by the government to advise on the production of chemical weapons for use in the [[Crimean War]] (1853–1856), Faraday refused to participate, citing ethical reasons.<ref name="Croddy">{{Cite book|last1=Croddy|first1=Eric|last2=Wirtz|first2=James J.|title=Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzlNgS70OHAC&q=Faraday++chemical+weapons+Crimean+War&pg=PA86|year=2005|page= 86|isbn=978-1-85109-490-5}}</ref>{{anchor|death}} He also refused offers to publish his lectures, believing that they would lose impact if not accompanied by the live experiments. His reply to an offer from a publisher in a letter ends with: "I have always loved science more than money & because my occupation is almost entirely personal I cannot afford to get rich."<ref name="Smith">{{cite news |title=Faraday to William Smith 3 January 1859 |url=https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3541 |access-date=12 July 2024 |website=Epilson.ac.uk}}</ref>

Faraday died at his house at [[Hampton Court]] on 25 August 1867, aged 75.<ref>{{openplaque|2429}}</ref> He had some years before turned down an offer of burial in [[Westminster Abbey]] upon his death, but he has a memorial plaque there, near [[Isaac Newton]]'s tomb.<ref>'The Abbey Scientists' Hall, A.R. p. 59: London; Roger & Robert Nicholson; 1966</ref> Faraday was interred in the [[dissenter]]s' (non-[[Anglicanism|Anglican]]) section of [[Highgate Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=118–119}}</ref>