MEMOIR OF 



THE REV. JOHN RUSSELL. 



CHAPTER I. 



John Russell's Education under his Father — Is sent 

 A to Plympton School — His First Fight with J. C. 



' BULTEEL Is removed TO TlVERTON SCHOOL KeEPS 



Hounds there, and gets into trouble with Dr. 

 Richards, the Head Master — Is admitted into 

 Exeter College, Oxford, in 1814. 



Boys, to the hunting field ! though 'tis November, 



The wind's in the south ; but a word ere we start — 



Though keenly excited, I bid you remember 

 That hunting's a science, and riding an art. 



Egerton-Warburton. 



The subject of the present memoir, the Rev. 

 John Russell, was born on the 21st of Decem- 

 ber, 1795. His father was the well-known 

 rector of Iddesleigh, in the north of Devon, 

 but resided, when John was born, and for a 

 short time afterwards, at Dartmouth, where he 

 took pupils, and at the same time kept hounds. 

 It is recorded of him that not only was he care- 

 ful to instruct the former in the rudiments of 

 Greek and Latin, but in those of the "noble 

 science;" the full enjoyment of the one being 



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