MEMOIR. 



A courage to endure and to obey, 



A hate of gossip parlance, and of sway. 



Tennyson. 



But you have made the wiser choice, 



A life that moves to gracious ends 



Thro' troops of unrecording friends, 

 A deedful life, a silent voice. 



Tennyson. 



The University has lost the Father, not of the professoriate 

 alone, but of the entire resident body. The tale is rapidly 

 shrinking, even of those who came to Cambridge before the 

 Eastern Counties Railway; nay, before the Market-place was 

 opened out ; but Cardale Babington ^ remembered King's Parade 

 a narrow street, while Kingsmen still kept in the court now 

 annexed by the University Library and Geological Museum. 

 St. John's had not enlarged its borders for one hundred and sixty 

 years; it boasted only three courts when he was an undergraduate; 

 as a B.A. he found quarters in the New Court in January 1831. 

 For nearly ten years he ever and anon heard Charles Simeon 

 preach. He had dined with William Wilberforce (f 1833), who 

 gave him his "Practical View."^ He subscribed in 1835 £20 

 towards Cockerell's Building.^ None but Masters of Arts, in 

 his recollection, might enter the Public Library. He never set 

 foot in the Library of his own College until it was thrown open 

 to all degrees. 



In every effort to widen University studies he bore a part ; 

 also in the birth of not a few scientific or antiquarian brother- 

 hoods: he belonged to many and was a sleeping partner in 

 none. Others of us might adorn councils by our names, while 

 conspicuous by our absence ; he by his presence ; he was always 

 ' of the Quorum ' ; of him it might be said, as of Socrates, idem, 

 semper vultus, eademque frons ; were the audience overflowing 

 or scanty, he was always alert, patient, untiring as that Nature 

 which he loved. Benjamin Franklin betrayed to sluggard Paris 

 a priceless secret: the Sun keeps his word; he never, by 

 forslowing dayspring, ' gives almanacs the lie ' ; even so some- 



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