54 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ch. 



I am sure you will not, on reflection, be surprised if 

 I have every confidence that when any new charter is 

 submitted to my constituents they will exercise the 

 rights well and wisely, and with an earnest wish to 

 further the interests of learning and education. — I am, 

 yours very sincerely, John Lubbock. 



The conclusion of the matter appears to have 

 been a gradual cessation of the opposition, and in 

 the end Sir John was returned again, unopposed. 



In course of the election he went down to 

 Cornwall, in response to an earnest appeal from 

 Mrs. Courtney, to speak at Fowey and at Liskeard 

 for Mr. Leonard (now Lord) Courtney, whose seat 

 was being fiercely assailed. 



Whenever he could spare the time he en- 

 joyed a game of golf, and could generally manage 

 a full day's play without fatigue. " Two rounds 

 of golf at Mitcham, with Beaumont," he writes. 

 We also find him driving over to Chislehurst with 

 Lady Lubbock to play golf with Mr. and Mrs. 

 Hambro. 



In March he had been re-elected to the Chair- 

 manship of the Council of Foreign Bondholders, 

 " consented to re-election until the end of the 

 year " as his diary has it. In point of fact, how- 

 ever, he continued President of the Council until 

 the year 1898, when he resigned, but again ac- 

 cepted the Presidency two years later and held 

 it until his death. In regard to this, Sir C. 

 Fremantle, the Deputy-Chairman, told me that it 

 was with the most unfeigned gratitude that he 

 welcomed the re-election, for the value of the 

 counsel, never failing in readiness and shrewd- 

 ness, on which he was then able to draw. Sir 

 John himself notes, at the end of the present year, 



