262 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



NOTES ON JOURNAL. 



Per veder chi fe, guarda con chi pratica. — Prov. 

 Birds of a feather flock together. 



School at Bath. 

 Not to name the school or the masters of men illustrious for literatxire, is a 

 kind of historical fraud, by which honest fame is injuriously diminished. I would 

 therefore trace him through the whole process of his education. 



SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life of Addison. 



Page 2, Mr. W. Hutchins' school. Mr. Hutchins must have been an inspiring 

 teacher. He was son of Mr. George Hutchins of Collingbourne, Wilts, and 

 matriculated from St. AlbanHall, Oxford, 1 Dec. 1817, aet. 22, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825. 

 When he was a candidate for a mastership at Coventry in 1833, Babington offered 

 to obtain from Mr. Bushby a certificate of his own proficiency as a freshman ; this 

 might help to carry the appointment. He was 14 years minister of Margaret's Chapel, 

 Bath (cf. Camb. Chr. 6 Dec. 1845). Crockford, 1860, gives Russell Str., Reading, 

 as his abode. He died 9 March, 1876, at his residence, Highfield, Lymington, aet. 

 79 [Times, 11 March), and was there buried 16 March, aet. 79, by the Rev. B. 

 Maturin, vicar {Register, no. 2355, a copy kindly sent by Mr. Maturin, who says : 

 " I well remember the Rev. W. Hutchins and his wife ; they lived here for some 

 few years, and I enjoyed his society very much. He was a quiet Christian gentle- 

 man.") Inscriptions on the base of the cross erected to the memory of the Rev. 

 William Hutchins in Lymington Parish Churchyard. 



SACRED 

 TO THE MEMORY OF 



THE REV*. 



WILLIAM HUTCHINS 



DIED THE 9th MARCH, 1875. 



"In Thee is Life, and certain hope of the Resurrection to Eternal Life." 



ALSO OF 



ANNA MARIA 



WIDOW OF 



THE REV*. WILLIAM HUTCHINS 



DIED JUNE 2nd, 1877. 

 [Copy sent by Mr. Maturin.) 



Canon Heaviside, a voice of weight in education, says of his old master : 

 "I have always considered him a good scholar, and far above the ordinary schoolmaster 

 of those days." Babington and Heaviside must have been among his earlier pupils. 

 In Babington's library is a Greek Testament in calf, ' cura Leusdenii et Griesbachii. 

 Londonii impensis G. et W. B. Whittaker 1823.' 12°. *' Mr. Hutchins requests the 

 Favour of Mastr: Babington's Acceptance in Acknowledgment of His very meritorious 

 Exertions since His Promotion to a Higher Class. 33, Grosvenor Place, Mar. 4, 1825." 



Of Mr. Hutchins's pupils may be mentioned : 



■James William Lucas Heaviside, second wrangler, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, fellow 

 of Sidney, professor of mathematics at Haileybury, who died 5 March, 1897, 



