THE LATE REGINALD BOSWORTH SMITH, M.A. CXX1. 



and from Maryborough to Corpus, as a Scholar, and later (1863), 

 to Trinity College, Oxford, as a Fellow. His old school at 

 Marlborough was very proud of him, and, as a Governor, he had 

 no small influence in the appointment of the present Head- 

 master. Indeed, it was largely though, doubtless, he himself 

 was quite unconscious of the fact through his own reputation 

 as a loyal Churchman and successful schoolmaster, who had in 

 his own person demonstrated that a layman may have just as 

 deep and real a religious influence on his pupils as a clergyman, 

 that in this last appointment to the Headmastership of Marl- 

 borough the tradition that the Head should be in holy orders 

 was, for the first time, set aside. 



After holding his Fellowship for two years he married, having 

 accepted an appointment as a master at Harrow School under 

 Dr. Butler, now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here 

 he remained for 37 years, and during that period enshrined 

 himself in the hearts and affections of a multitude of Harrow 

 boys, now scattered all over the world. His house at Bing- 

 ham's Melcombe is a veritable museum of curiosities from all 

 parts of the globe, many of them sent as tributes of affection 

 and respect by old boys. Of this period of his life, however, I 

 do not possess any knowledge at first hand, but I have been 

 permitted to read many of the hundreds of affectionate letters 

 from old Harrovians which his death called forth. These show 

 that he left behind him a monumenltim cere perennius in the hearts 

 and affections of his old pupils. Let me (by kind permission) 

 quote almost at random phrases like the following: "Everybody 

 loved Mr. Bosworth Smith, and I never heard anybody say 

 anything that was not good of him." "When I had caught 

 something of his enthusiasm for Nature, I learned to love birds 

 and flowers far more than before." " He drew out all that was 

 best in me. His character was such a wonderful combination of 

 strength and tenderness that those who knew him could not help 

 loving him." 



" During all the years that he was at Harrow," observes the 

 writer of the full and sympathetic notice of his life in the Dorset 



