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incident, intense suffering, prolonged and arduous struggle. These 

 experiences were important factors in the development of a type of 

 manhood worthy of being studie(ï. 



Some stages and phases of that development it will be the work 

 of the following pages to attempt to portray. 



At the Church of St. Olave, Old Jewry, London, on the 4th of 

 May, 1801, Thomas George Bucke, of Milden Hall, ISTorfolk, married 

 Georgina Walpole. 



Three cliildren were born of this marriage. All received a good 

 education. Horatio Walpole, eldest child and only son, was educated 

 at Trinity College, Cambridge, took holy orders, and was appointed 

 curate of the neighbouring village of IMethwold. He married Clarissa 

 Andrews, whose brother. Biggs Andrews, Iv.C, was a barrister of some 

 eminence. 



To the Eeverend Ploratio "Walpole Bucke and Clarissa, his wife, 

 were bom six sons and four daughters. 



It was at Methwold that their seventh child and fifth son first 

 opened his eyes to the light on the 28th day of March, 1837. Of this 

 son, Eichard Maurice Bucke, it is proposed to speak in the following 

 memoir. 



Through his mother, Horatio Walpole Bucke was a great grandson 

 of the famous Prime Minister of England, Sir Robert Walpole, and a 

 grand nephew of Horace Walpole, whose Letters have given him a 

 niche in the pantheon of English literature. On the side of the Buckes 

 also literature had its representative. Charles Bucke, a brother of 

 Thomas George, was the author of '^ Beauties of Xature," and " Euins 

 of Ancient Cities," books which continued to be published until nearly 

 the end of the last century. The tendency to literature of the subject 

 of this sketch was therefore part of his inheritance. 



In the spring of 1838 the curate, with his wife and seven children, 

 emigrated to Upper Canada. For a score of years general attention 

 had been directed to the Talbot settlement. Perhaps the familiar 

 nomenclature, reproducing the names of counties, cities, towns and 

 streams belonging to the eastern part of England added to the attraction. 

 On the river Thames, in Upper Canada as in England, were the coun- 

 ties of Oxford, Middlesex, Kent, and Essex. In the township of Lon- 



