CHAPTER VI 



EARLY SCHOOL DAYS 



In 1859, just eight years after father died, our mother married 

 again. Her second husband was the Rev. Harry Glanville 

 Southwell, only child of Mr. Henry Southwell, of Saxmundham, 

 Suffolk, a well-known and wealthy solicitor. The advent of 

 the young man into our quiet Limber village, as curate to 

 Mr. Brown, the rector, was a great event. Not only did he 

 succeed in enlivening the depressingly dull services in Limber 

 Church as much as it was possible in the absence of organ and 

 choir, but he brought with him a great reputation as a cricketer, 

 as well as being known as an exceptionally good shot. At 

 Harrow he was in the First Eleven of 1848 and 1849, an d tne 

 last two years of his college life at Trinity, in the Cambridge 

 University Eleven of 1852 and 1853. It was, therefore, scarcely 

 to be wondered at, that a budding cricketer, such as Maunsell 

 was at that time, became at once his bond slave and would-be 

 imitator in this special line. As a first-rate man behind a gun, 

 he also fascinated my eldest brother, who was devoted to 

 shooting, and possessed "a real gun" when he was ten years 

 old, giving quite a good account of himself amongst the 

 partridges at that early age. Indeed, to the end of his life, he 

 remained fonder of shooting than of any other kind of sport. 

 At that time the days of tremendous scoring in the cricket 

 field were not so generally known as now, and to get a 



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