MEMOIRS. 



At Oxford distinctions in the schools were followed 

 by a Fellowship at St. John's, where he was tutor 

 for three years by the side of a like-minded friend, 

 R. S. Copleston, now Bishop of Colombo. From an 

 interval spent as a parish priest at Frenchay in 

 Gloucestershire he brought away a great affection 

 for the place and people, and the true priest's sense 

 of pastoral responsibility, which formed so distinc- 

 tive an element both of his tutorial and intellectual 

 work, and which is seen in the last action of his 

 life, his acceptance of an official Fellowship at 

 Magdalen, carrying with it the religious " cure " of 

 the undergraduates. He never broke his links 

 with Oxford, coming up most terms weekly to 

 give lectures as assistant to Dr. Bright or to attend 

 the meeting of an association of tutors engaged in 

 Oxford work on Church lines, which had then been 

 recently formed as a bond of brotherhood. His 

 true vocation became clear, and it was a great 

 happiness for Keble College that it was the means 

 of bringing him back to the University. Here he 

 found ample scope ; he held tutorships simul- 

 taneously at Magdalen and at Keble; the "com- 

 bined system " of lectures enabled him to become 

 lecturer on the Ethics of Aristotle to a very large 

 number of those reading " Literae Humaniores." 

 Along with this he was always writing on theo- 

 logy, and carrying on his lectures on Ecclesiastical 

 History, of the teaching of which in the Refor- 



