May 25, 1857.] OBITUARY. 381 



Scotcli General Patrick Gordon,* who fouglit so well for the Czar 

 Peter, or entered with the lamented Cathcart into the Russian and 

 German campaigns of the first Kapoleon,"]" or stood forth in the hour 

 of trial as the champion of his dear friend the brave Lord Eaglan, 

 we invariably applaud the generous sentiments and true apprecia- 

 tion of merit which ever guided the pen in his portraiture of a hero. 



The versatility of the talents of Lord Ellesmere was displayed in 

 numerous other works published under his own name. A poet by 

 nature, verses, whether martial, plaintive, or jocose, flowed freely 

 from his heart, and the principal of these being collected under the 

 title of the 'Pilgrimage and other Poems,' the author, with his 

 habitual modesty, spoke of them in his preface as being a collection 

 of the least unpopular of his works. 



A master of several languages, he frequently put before his coun- 

 trymen in good racy English, the thoughts of eminent foreign 

 authors, and of these eiforts, the translations of Goethe's ' Faust ' 

 and Schiller's ' Wallenstein ' are prominent examples. The num- 

 ber of foreign works which he translated may well surprise us, 

 when we reflect upon his numerous occupations, and among them I 

 may enumerate Clausewitz's ' Campaigns of Eussia,' the ' Sieges of 

 Vienna by the Turks,' and the * Last Military Events in Italy.' 



Returning to my noble friend's connection with science, let me 

 ask any old member of the British Association if he ever heard from 

 the President of the year a more inciting appeal than was made by 

 Lord Francis Egerton at the Manchester Meeting of the year 1842. 

 Ranging from science to letters and art, he proved that he truly 

 merited the application of that line with which he honoured his 

 predecessor, Dr. Whewell — 



" Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all." 



It was then that I rejoiced in being one of those assembled at 

 Manchester, to bear witness that this distinguished nobleman, the 

 possessor of large domains, was as truly esteemed by every artisan 

 of that vast hive of industry, as he was beloved by his tenantry and 

 agricultural labourers. 



If it was specially when surrounded by his family and friends 

 that the genuine heartiness and wit of the man came out most 

 strikingly, every public act of his life was carried out with such. 

 stedfast sincerity and true liberality, that, whether he presided over a 

 Royal commission, a literary or scientific society, or a parish vestry, 

 he did his duty with his whole heart. Philanthropy and generosity 



* Quarterly Review, vol. xc, p. 314. t I^'> "^^1. xc. p. 1. 



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