Editing Howard Staunton (section)

===Later life===
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Staunton continued writing the chess column in ''The Illustrated London News'' until his death in 1874, greeting new developments with enthusiasm.<ref name="batgirlStaunton"/><ref name="HilbertStauntonChessByTelegraph"/> In 1860 he published ''Chess Praxis'', a supplement to his 1847 work ''The Chess Player's Handbook''. The new book devoted 168&nbsp;pages to presenting many of Morphy's games and praised the American's play.<ref name="Murray1908Staunton"/><ref name="WallStaunton"/>

Five years later Staunton published ''Great Schools of England'' (1865), whose main subject was the history of major English [[Public school (UK)|public schools]] but which also presented some progressive ideas: Learning can only take place successfully if the active interest of the student is engaged; [[corporal punishment]] is to be avoided and [[fagging]] should be abolished.<ref>{{cite book
 | author=Staunton, H.
 | year=2002
 | title=Great Schools of England
 | publisher=Hardinge Simpole
 | isbn=1-84382-013-7
 | url=http://www.hardingesimpole.co.uk/biblio/1843820137.htm
 | access-date=19 June 2008
| archive-date=22 August 2010
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822015728/http://www.hardingesimpole.co.uk/biblio/1843820137.htm
 | url-status=dead
 }}<br/>Also summarised at {{cite web
 | title=The Howard Staunton Society
 | url=http://www.howardstaunton.com/staunton.shtml
 | access-date=19 June 2008
| url-status=dead
 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125161937/http://www.howardstaunton.com/staunton.shtml
 | archive-date=25 January 2013
}}</ref>

Most of Staunton's later life was occupied in writing about [[Shakespeare]], including: A [[photolithographic]] reproduction of the 1600 [[Early texts of Shakespeare's works|Quarto]] of ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]'' in 1864 and of the [[First Folio]] of Shakespeare in 1866;<ref>
{{cite web
 | author=Gray, T.A.
 | year=2008
 | title=Shakespeare's Works
 | url=http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/works.htm
 | access-date=19 June 2008
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006112203/http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/works.htm
 | archive-date=6 October 2013
}}
</ref> and papers on ''Unsuspected corruptions of Shakespeare's text'', published from 1872 to his death. All these works were highly regarded at the time.

When he died suddenly of heart disease, on 22&nbsp;June 1874, he was at his desk writing one of these papers.<ref name="Murray1908Staunton"/> At the same time he was also working on his last chess book, ''Chess: Theory and Practice'', which was published posthumously in 1876.<ref name="NYTimes1888TheoryAndPractice">
{{cite news
 | title=A new chess book
 | date=13 May 1888
| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]
 | page=13
 | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02EEDA173AEF33A25750C1A9639C94699FD7CF
 | access-date=19 June 2008
}}</ref>

A memorial plaque now hangs at his old residence of 117&nbsp;Lansdowne Road, London. In 1997 a memorial stone bearing an engraving of a chess [[knight (chess)|knight]] was raised over his grave at [[Kensal Green Cemetery]] in London, which had previously been unmarked and neglected.<ref>
{{cite news
 | last = Keene  | first = Raymond | author-link=Raymond Keene
 | date = 30 June 1995
| title = Staunton remembered
 | newspaper=[[The Spectator]]
 | page = 60
 | url = http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/1st-july-1995/60/chess
 | access-date = 4 September 2015
}}
</ref><ref>An image of the [http://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/documents/KG_restoration.html new headstone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224072743/http://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/documents/KG_restoration.html |date=24 February 2014 }} is at the bottom of the page.</ref>