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CHAPTER 11. 



FROM CAMBRIDGE TO GUERNSEY AND TORQUAY. 



1840-1845. 



In October 1840 William Hodson entered on his 

 first term of residence at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where his second brother, afterwards the 

 Rev. George H. Hodson, Fellow of Trinity and 

 Vicar of Enfield, had taken his degree a few 

 months earlier. " Here," says the Rev. G. H. 

 Hodson, " as might have been expected from his 

 previous habits, he took an active interest in boat- 

 ing and other athletic amusements, while at the 

 same time he by no means neglected the more 

 serious and intellectual pursuits of the university. 

 He had a very considerable acquaintance with, and 

 taste for, both classical and general literature ; but 

 a constitutional tendency to headache very much 

 stood in the way of any close application to books, 

 and after he had taken his cleoree in 1844, was 

 one strong reason for his deciding on an active 

 rather than a studious life." ^ 



The new undergraduate had for his tutor the 

 Rev. J. W. Blakesley, a Fellow of Trinity and 

 afterwards Dean of Lincoln, who was soon to 



^ Hodson of Hodson's Horse. 



