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He also obtained the gold medal in the Law 

 School of London University, an honourable 

 trophy which is only given as the reward of 

 exceptional merit. But of all the brothers the 

 one to whom Sir John himself ever gave the 

 credit of being gifted with the most original and 

 powerful intellect was the above - mentioned 

 Montagu, a physician. Most unfortunately he 

 had a very bad carriage accident when he was 

 no more than nineteen years old, which completely 

 shattered his health for a long while. 



Early in October Sir John's great friends, 

 the Grant Duffs, sailed from England for Sir 

 Mountstuart to take up his office in Madras, 

 and Sir John felt the loss of their close intimacy 

 very keenly. 



A note of his diary on the 13th of the same 

 month may raise a smile, in view of subsequent 

 events : "At the Guildhall to hear Gladstone — 

 a magnificent speech. When he announced that 

 Parnell was to be arrested, every one sprang up 

 and cheered." 



A little later, Sir John was at Knowsley 

 meeting the Gladstones, and afterwards returned 

 with them to Hawarden, where he had much 

 talk with Mr. Gladstone about Homer, the senses 

 of animals, etc. " His room," Sir John writes 

 in his diary, " is very comfortable, with detached 

 bookcases all round projecting into the room, 

 with just space enough for any one to get in 

 between." 



It was in the course of this year, at Castle 

 Howard, that he first met the lady who was 

 destined to become his second wife, Miss Alice 



