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with them only on the previous Wednesday, 

 when he had made the remark, which came 

 to have the aspect of tragic significance, "I do 

 not envy the man who takes Forster's place." 



On Thursday, May 11, Lord Frederick was 

 buried at Chatsworth, and Sir John attended 

 the funeral. 



One of the consequences touching Sir John, 

 of Lord Frederick's tragedy, was that the con- 

 ferring of the degree of LL.D. with which the 

 Cambridge Senate was proposing to honour him, 

 was deferred until the following year. Lord 

 Frederick's father, the old Duke of Devonshire, 

 was Chancellor, and no degrees were given that 

 year, out of respect for Lord Frederick's memory. 



At the end of May, Sir John went with his 

 daughter Gertrude and his son Norman for a 

 short tour in Switzerland, but was in his place 

 again in the House of Commons by July 6, when 

 his Bills of Exchange Bill passed its third reading. 

 He notes that on the 29th of the month he went 

 " to the Maskelynes at Basset Down to meet 

 Ruskin. On Monday we drove over to Avebury, 

 a lovely and delightful day. Ruskin had no 

 idea there was such a place and was enchanted 

 with it." This is the earliest occasion on which 

 we find him using the spelling of the place-name 

 which has now become familiar through his 

 taking it for his title — " Avebury." Previously 

 he had written " Abury." Of this visit Mr. 

 Ruskin himself writes, in a letter, published in his 

 collected Works, to Mrs. Severn : " Mrs. Maske- 

 lyne is such a botanist, and to see Sir John 

 Lubbock and her hunting together over every 



