THE LATE MR. H. J. MOULE, M.A. Ixxix. 



still alive. A house in Fordington, near Mr. Hayne's, where I 

 have often visited as Curate (I think it is levelled now), was 

 what he instanced a typical old stone and thatch dwelling ; he 

 remembered the building of it. 



Like all of us, he was schooled at home. In 1845 he entered 

 Corpus Christi, Cambridge, which he left with a " poll " degree 

 in 1848. His active mind never worked much in the direction 

 of either high mathematics or pure classical scholarship, so he 

 did not seek " honours." But some of his most characteristic 

 activities, mental and manual, showed themselves (as I, then a 

 child, can recollect) in those old days. He was already a keen 

 water-colour sketcher, and great was my wonder at the sketches 

 of Cambridge (college nooks, old houses, &c.), which he 

 brought home each vacation. He was a wide and eager reader, 

 and a lover of the books he read ; and he was a good mechanic. 

 In the vacations he constructed a great oaken arm-chair, with an 

 elaborate rotating book-desk, for our dear father. The material 

 was oak from the dismantled woodwork of old All Saints'. 



After Cambridge he entered on tutorial work, first for the sons 

 of Lord Wriothesley Russell, the saintly Rector of Chenies (a 

 family whose survivors, in their old home, affectionately cherish 

 his memory still) ; then with the then Marquis of Abercorn and 

 the then Earl Fitzwilliam. In 1862, to his great happiness, he 

 married, at Edinburgh, and took up the management of the 

 property of Cally, in Galloway, for the late Mr. Murray Stewart. 

 There, in a charming and most happy home, he spent some 

 fourteen years ; his daughter and two sons were born there. In 

 1877 (if my memory serves me) he became "home-factor" for 

 the late Marquis (was he already Duke ?) of Abercorn, in Ireland. 

 In 1879 he finally came back to his old county, and for very 

 nearly a quarter of a century lived in Dorchester, as Curator of 

 the Museum. In Dorchester he died, March i3th last, after some 

 months of failure in. his health, which till the age of quite 

 seventy-six had been remarkably vigorous. He was laid to rest 

 beside his father and mother in the churchyard of the beloved 

 parish which his father had served for fifty-one years. 



