264 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. 



P. 3. March 27 1827. John Banks HoUingworth, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807> 

 B.D. 1814, D.D. 1819. Fellow of Peterhouse. He died 9 Feb. 1856. See F. 

 Boase's Modern English Biography. C. C. Babington, as the Professor's certificate 

 proves, must have come to college with the purpose of taking holy orders. 



P. 4. May 2 1827. Phrenological Society. Phrenology was militant in these 

 years. George Combe, in the Phrenological Journal, Sept. 1834, rebukes Sedgwick 

 for not alluding to Phrenology in his Discourse (Sedgwick's Life, i 406). 



P. 4. April 23 1830. Lodgings at Mrs. Tomlinson's, Fitzwilliam Street. Thomas 

 Whytehead (Remains 1877, p. 10) writes on 8 Mar. 1831 : " My bedroom command* 

 a splendid view of the Southern Road, towards the Cambridge Hills. The street is 

 quite a new one in the suburbs, and in a very airy and eligible situation — Fitzwilliam 

 Street." Charles Robert Darwin also [Life i? 67) lodged in Fitzwilliam Street for 

 three months beginning 13 Dec. 1830. 



P. 20. May 15 1834. Natterjacks at Gamlingay. C. R. Darwin's Life i^ 187. 



P. 33. Nov. 5 1834. Bromby. John Edward Bromby, fellow of St. John's, 

 B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1845, D.D. 1850, when he preached the Commencement 

 Sermon : The Irregular Element in the Church. Vice-principal of Bristol Coll., 

 married 20 Dec. 1836, at St. Paul's Church, Bristol, Eliza, 2nd daughter of R. T. 

 Lilly, Esq., of Brunswick Square {Cambr. Chr. 14 Jan. 1837). At Bristol College 

 he had as a colleague, Francis W. Newman. Principal of Queen Elizabeth College, 

 Guernsey, 1847—55 (cf. ibid. 3 Apr. 1847). Curate of Hull 1855—7, Head Master 

 of Grammar School, Melbourne, 1858—75 (cf. ibid. 12 Sept. 1857). Incumbent of 

 St. Paul's, Melbourne, 1877. His wife, Eliza Sophia, died 29 Sept. 1883, at St. 

 Paul's Parsonage, Melbourne [Guardian, Nov. 28, 1883, p. 1797c). He was born 

 at Hull 23 May 1809, educated at Hull and Uppingham, and died at Melbourne 4 

 March 1889 (obituary from the Melbourne Argus, 5 March). He refused the 

 chancellorship of Melbourne University. "When £1000 was presented to him he 

 founded a divinity prize at Trinity College, Melbourne. Brother of Charles Henry 

 B., of St. John's, B.A. 1837. M.A. 1840, D.D. 1864, on his appointment to the see 

 of Tasmania (cf. Heaton's Australian Bictionary), whose numerous works may be 

 seen in an early Crockford. Bishop of Tasmania 1864 — 83 ; assistant to the Bishop 

 ofLichfield 1882—91; to the Bishop of B. and W. 1891. The Bishop is still living ; 

 one of his sons, Henry Bodley B., was of Jesus, B.A. 1864, now Vicar of All Saints', 

 Clifton ; another son, and two grandsons, of Oxford. The Bishop's father, John 

 Healy B., was fellow of Sidney, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, for 70 years Vicar of Hull, 

 and died at the age of 97. A third son, Frederick "William, was of the father's 

 college, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848. 



P. 33. Nov. 17 1834. Bowstead. James Bowstead, Bishop of Lichfield 1843-5> 

 migrated from St. John's to Corpus. See my edition of Baker, pp. 972 — 3. In 

 1832 he posted, with Leonard Jenyns, and Professors Henslow and William Clark, 

 to the second meeting, held at Oxford, of the British Association (Leon. Blomefield, 

 prius Jenyns, Chapters in my Life, 1889, p. 103). Unknown to B.N.B.. On his 

 father, of Beck Bank, ' a grand example of a "Westmoreland statesman,' and his dog 

 Boy, see Sedgwick's Life ii 94—7. F. E. Gretton, Memory's Harkback (1889) p. 90 

 " Bowstead I knew well at Cambridge. He became bishop, partly because he was 

 second wrangler, in greater part because he was a "Whig among many Tories. I 



