40 LORD LILFORD 



CHAPTEE II 



Birth of Thomas Littleton Powys, Subject of Memoir, in 1833 

 School Days Letter from Colonel Barclay, a School Friend at 

 Harrow Christ Church, Oxford, 1852 Letters from Christ 

 Church Friends, Godfrey Webb, and the Rev. F. M. Stop- 

 ford Extract from Professor Alfred Newton's Introduction 

 to Lord Lilford's ' Coloured Figures of British Birds ' Letters 

 to Alfred Newton from 1852 to 1858 (Ornithological Rambles 

 in Spain and Sardinia) Origin of Ibis Magazine. 



ON March 18, 1833, my eldest brother was 

 born in Stanhope Street, May Fair. His pre- 

 decessor in the nursery had been a sister, who 

 speedily adopted pretty, motherly airs of pro- 

 tection towards the little new-comer. The 

 name of Thomas awaited him at the font. 

 Only one story of his early years a character- 

 istic one need be related here. When he was 

 about five years old, some childish offence made 

 it necessary, in his father's opinion, that he 

 should undergo the time-honoured and time- 

 abused punishment of birching. The corporal 

 chastisement was administered in the dusk of an 



