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a Fellow of his College, but only held the fellowship until his 
marriage with his cousin, Ellen Calverley, of Oulton, Yorkshire, in 
1865. His first published work was “ Verses and Translations,” 
in 1862. He was called to the Bar as a member of the Inner 
Temple in 1865, and practised regularly till a year and a half 
later, an injury to his head received while skating, compelled him 
to abandon all active business. He died on February 17, 1884, 
and was buried in the cemetery at Folkestone, by the side of his 
infant daughter, laid there sixteen years before. 
A want of energy throughout his life caused Calverley’s 
“output” to be limited, but what there is is charming. The 
interest of his life lies rather in what he was than in what he 
achieved. ‘One of the things,” says a friend, “which made him 
“the most delightful companion in the world was that his temper 
“never gave way, even under little irritations of the moment, 
“which too often make weaker brethren use ‘language.’ ” There 
never was a man more thoroughly, more truly domestic in his 
tastes and habits, and more likely by disposition and habits to 
make a home bright. In the Somerset village in which previously 
to his marriage his home life was chiefly spent, many stories of 
his sympathetic good nature were current, and nowhere was the 
news of his untimely death heard with more sorrow. 
Those who have read “ Verdant Green” will remember that 
the Blades therein commemorated as an Oxford undergraduate 
was chiefly conspicuous as an athlete. The character, with the 
spelling of the name slightly altered, was in great measure drawn 
from Charles Stuart Blayds. 
