156 MEMORIES OF MY LIFE 



wife and myself, and became my regular correspondent, 

 whose weekly letters were awaited and read by us 

 both with eagerness. 



My eldest sister lived during the time with which 

 I am now concerned, with her husband and her two 

 growing children, in the country, about seven miles 

 from Leamington. 



My sister Adele lost her husband not long after 

 her marriage, and settled successively in various 

 places at home and abroad, devoting herself, as 

 already said, to the education of her little girl. She 

 died in 1883. 



My second brother, Erasmus, lived for a while 

 on his property at Loxton, in Somersetshire, five 

 miles from Weston-super-Mare, but joined the 2nd 

 Warwickshire Militia during many years, of which 

 he became Major. He is now the only survivor of 

 my six brothers and sisters, and is ninety-three years 

 of age. 



I turn from my own family to that of my wife. 

 Her father was Dean of Peterborough, previously 

 Headmaster of Harrow during many years, and 

 before his appointment the Senior Wrangler at 

 Cambridge, in the year in which Copley, the future 

 Lord Lyndhurst, was second. There was no 

 Classical class list in existence in Cambridge in those 

 days, but the fact of Dr. Butler's election to the Head- 

 mastership of Harrow at a very early age testifies to 

 his reputation as a classical scholar as well as a 

 mathematician. He had been noted for athletic 

 powers, and he much prized a medal awarded to him 

 by the Humane Society for having saved the life of a 

 drowning woman when long past his middle age. 



