LORD LILFORP 



science when it was necessary, but he would 

 not have anyone talk up to him on his subject, 

 and he shrank from even seeming to be a bore. 

 I think I found it almost difficult to induce 

 him to satisfy my curiosity about the birds he 

 had around him. He liked to talk of ideas, as 

 expressed in literature or exhibited in life ; but 

 he rarely passed judgment on living people. 

 Indeed, I know no one who was more full of the 

 spirit of Charity. It was pain to him to think ill 

 of another, and he repressed anything like harsh 

 judgment in others. His chivalrous respect for 

 women showed itself at every turn. He had 

 the reward which is reserved for a pure and 

 simple character — the unbounded affection of 

 young people. Few more charming pictures 

 linger in my memory than one of Lord Lilford 

 being wheeled in his chair through his gardens, 

 surrounded by a crowd of children, eager to ask 

 him questions about the birds but restrained by 

 the consciousness that they must not come too 

 near and push against him, all hanging on his 



