Part 3 (1/2)

Now that I a about school-fellows, several names call for special mention As I disliked athletics, it follows that I did not adore athletes I can safely say that I never adh I have admired many in spite of it Probably Sidney Pelham, Archdeacon of Norfolk, as in the Harrow Eleven in 1867 and 1868, and the Oxford Eleven in 1871, will never see this book; so I may safely say that I have seldom envied anyone as keenly as I envied hi hi set an exa sweetness of temper, and perfect purity of life”

In one respect, the most conspicuous of my school-felloas HRH

Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, nephew of Victor Emmanuel, and now an Admiral in the Italian Navy He came to Harrow in 1869, and lived with Mr and Mrs Matthew Arnold He was elected King of Spain by a vote of the Cortes on the 3rd of October 1869 He was quite a popular boy, and no one had the slightest grudge against hi hi able to say in after-life that they had kicked the King of Spain Unfortunately Victor E dynastic coot all the Harrow kicks and none of the Spanish half-pence When I entered Harrow, the winner of all the classical prizes was Andrew Graham Murray, now Lord Dunedin and Lord President of the Court of Session; a raceful scholar, and also a considerable mathematician Just below hi caler as Senior Classic, and whose performances in Physical Science won the war as these were Arthur Evans, the Nuist, and Gerald Rendall, Head- uished was Charles Gore, whose subsequent career has only fulfilled what all foresaw; and just after him came (to call them by their present names) Lord Crewe, Lord Ribblesdale, Lord Spencer, Mr

Justice Barton of the Irish Bench, and Mr Walter Long, in whom Harrow may find her next Prime Minister Walter Sichel was at seventeen the cleverest school-boy whom I have ever known Sir Henry McKinnon obtained his Commission in the Guards while he was still in the Fifth Form

Pakenham Beatty was the Swinburnian of the school, then, as now, a true Poet of Liberty Ion Keith-Falconer, Orientalist and missionary, was a saint in boyhood as in manhood Edward Eyre seemed foreordained to be what in London and in Northumberland he has been--the model Parish-Priest; and my closest friend of all was Charles Baldwyn Childe-Pemberton, who, as Major Childe, fell at the battle of Spion Kop, on a spot now called, in honour of his memory, ”Childe's Hill” _De nifies--_The Commonwealth_ will not care to know the naed for iven to h , my exactions were not brutal

On the 15th of June, 1871, Harrow School celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of its foundation Harrovians calobe to take part in this Tercentenary Festival The arrangements were elaborated with the most anxious care The Duke of Abercorn, affectionately and appropriately nicknamed ”Old Splendid,” presided over a banquet in the School-Yard; and the progras had announced, rather to the terror of intending visitors, that after luncheon there would be ”speeches, interspersed with songs, from three hundred and fifty of the boys” The abolition of the second comma dispelled the dreadful vision of three-hundred-and-fifty school-boy-speeches, and all went e-bell--all, except the weather It seemed as if the accued on the devoted Hill It was raining ent to the early celebration in the Chapel; it was raining harder e ca han was proposing ”Prosperity to Harrow,” the downpour and the thunder drowned the speaker's voice; and, when evening fell on the sodden cricket-ground, the rain extinguished the fireworks

On that saolden afternoon of Midsue Clement Cottrell, a boy beautiful alike in face and in character, was killed in an instant by a blow fro in the Sixth Forame

On the 29th of June his five hundred school-fellows followed hi-place in the Churchyard on the Hill, and I believe we unanimously felt that he e had lost was the one, of all our number, of e could say, with the surest confidence, that he was fit to pass, without a , into the invisible World

_Beatito John Murray in 1832, Byron said--”There is a spot in the Churchyard, near the footpath, on the brow of the Hill looking towards Windsor, and a to the name of Peachie, or Peachey), where I used to sit for hours and hours as a boy: this was

[6] Herga is the Anglo-Saxon name of Harrow

[7] Charlotte Seymour, Countess Spencer, died 1903

[8] The name is borrowed from ”Sybil” The bearer of it was an ancient physician, who had doctored all the fa with ”Pamela”

[9] Mr R de C Welch

[10] _The Hill_ Chapter vi

[11] Some authorities say that it was the last on record

[12] This paper appeared in _The Corace, and for sweet companee, Oxford is Heaven, if Heaven on Earth there be”

SIR JOHN DAVIES

The faithful student of ”Verdant Green” will not have forgotten that Charlie Larkyns, when introducing his Freshhts of Oxford, called his attention to a mystic inscription on a wall in Oriel Lane ”You see that? Well, that's one of the plates they put up to record the Vice's height FP--7 feet, you see: the initials of his name--Frederick Plumptre!” ”He scarcely seeh certainly a tall own makes a difference, I suppose”

Dr Plumptre was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford froe for thirty-four years He died in 1870, and the College thereupon elected the Rev G G Bradley, then Head-h, and afterwards Dean of Westminster, to the vacant post It was an unfortunate choice Mr Bradley was a ifts and virtues, and a successful schoolh were not adapted to Oxford, and he soon contrived to get at loggerheads both with Dons and with Undergraduates

However, there existed at that time--and I daresay it exists still--a nefarious kind of trades-unionis the Headmasters of Public Schools; and, as Bradley had been a Head-master, all the Head-masters advised their best pupils to try the scholarshi+ps at University College

So far as I had any acadee; and norant of Oxford as myself

All I knew about it was that it was the source and home of the Oxford ht me to admire

Two or three of those friends were already there, and I wished to rejoin thees, I was fancy-free; so when, early in 1872, Dr Butler suggested that I should try for a scholarshi+p at University, I assented, reserving myself, in the too probable event of failure, for Christ Church However, I was elected at University on the 24th of February, 1872, and went into residence there on the 11th of the following October The Vice-Chancellor who matriculated me was the ht draped in scarlet, his ”argent aureole” of white hair, and his three silver maces borne before him, always helped me to understand what Sydney Smith meant when he said, of some nonsensical proposition, that no power on earth, save and except the Dean of Christ Church, should induce him to believe it As I write, I see the announcement of Mrs Liddell's death; and -rooarland of beautiful faces