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of that famous school, he joined the study of Hebrew to that of the 

 Greek and Latin Classics, becoming in due course Classical Scholar of 

 St. John's College, Oxford, and Craven University Scholar, besides 

 carrying off the two Hebrew scholarships of the University. His 

 career in statu piipillari was closed, after the gaining of two 

 classical " Firsts," by his election to a Fellowship at Merton. 

 Here he served for some years as Tutor, having among his 

 colleagues the late Bishop Creighton, of London, and the present Bishop 

 of Manchester. His extreme sense of duty led hiiu, in 1877, to resign 

 his position in College in favour of a post where, as he thought, he 

 could exercise more influence over the lives of his pupils by catching 

 them at a comparatively early stage of their mental development. But 

 his career as Headmaster, first of Bradfield and afterwards of Malvern, 

 was not in every respect a success. He was probably too sensitive and 

 conscientious to be thoroughly comfortable amid the worries and 

 anxieties inseparable from the conduct of a great school ; and when he 

 left Malvern, in 1885, it was plain that the strain of the last few years 

 had told on him severely. The remainder of his life was passed in the 

 more congenial surroundings of country parishes, varied by his terms 

 of residence as Canon of Peterborough. As Rector of Ewelme, where 

 his last years were spent, he had the opportunity of renewing his 

 connexion with his old University, where he served as Select Preacher, 

 and a,s Deputy for the Regius Professor of Divinity during the illness 

 of the latter in 1906-7. 



Cruttwell was a man of varied interests and activities. Nothing 

 in the world of intellect seemed to come amiss to him. Literature, 

 whether Classical, Seiuetic or Patristic, claimed much of his attention 

 and was illuminated by his writings. A colleague remembers being 

 invited by hira to jom in the study of Arabic during such odd hours 

 as are to be found in the midst of an Oxford Term. As an under- 

 graduate he cultivated the art of speaking in public, and made his 

 mark at the Union, serving successfully as Secretary, Librarian and 

 President. He also figured as an athlete. Multifarious as were his 

 interests and pursuits, he was thorough in all of them. Everything 

 that he undertook bears the stamp of accurate and patient work. The 

 writer, who, as an undergraduate in the seventies, had the privilege of 

 attending his lectures, well remembers his skilful treatment of 

 difficulties, whether in the language of Sophocles, or in the philology 

 of the Greek and Latin inflections. The notes of those lectures, which 

 are still preserved, show a rare combination of ripe scholarship, of 

 keen poetic insight, and of lucid exposition. The like qualities of 

 accuracy and thoroughness were apparent in his work as an ento- 

 mologist. From his earliest days entomology had been with him a 

 favourite hobby, and throughout his life he remained an assiduous 

 and successful collector of British Lepidoptera and Coleoptera ; his 

 keenness in field-work being rewarded by the capture of great rarities 

 in both orders. 



While at Malvern, Cruttwell married a daughter of the late Sir 

 John Mowbray. His eldest son is at the present time a scholar of 

 Queen's College, Oxford. — F. A. Dixey. 



Erratdm. — Page G9, lines 3 and 5, should read " anterior femora of j' ," and 

 not " anterior tibise." — G. W. Nicholson (F.E.S.). 



