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The Rev. Hugh Palliser Costobadie, a connection of 

 " Parson Dove," was born at Wensley Rectory, in the 

 county of York, in 1804 ; his name appears in the register 

 of Harrow School, 1813-15, and he proceeded to St. John's 

 Coll., Cambridge, in 1822, where, although not co-temporary, 

 he made the acquaintance of an old Harrovian, in the 

 person of Lord Palmerston, who sat as a burgess for Cam- 

 bridge University, 1811-30, through whom, at a later date, he 

 became acquainted with another distinguished Harrovian, 

 viz., Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, during the latter's 

 brief Administration 1834-35, or in 1841. Mr. Costobadie, 

 although of a ver^ unassuming disposition, used jokingly to 

 say, " its not everyone who has had the honour to walk arm 

 in arm between a Prime Minister ' in esse ' and a Prime 

 Minister ' in futuro.' " The effigies of the great Statesmen 

 and "old boys" now stand on either side as one walks 

 into the Vaughan Library at Harrow, where the writer has 

 often stood between the carved marble, even as his father 

 stood between them "in the flesh." Mr. Costobadie was 

 co-temporary with the father of Charlotte Bronte. 



Mr. Costobadie held the living of Hallaton from 1838- 

 43, the personal recollections of him by Mr. Tailby and 

 the Rev. F. Thorp extending from this time — when they 

 had but just commenced their "varsity career," — down to 

 his death in 1887, a period of half-a-century. 



The proximity of Wensley to the famous training 

 establishment of Middleham had a good deal to do with 

 that appreciation of horses which he imbibed at an early 

 age, for to that celebrated moor he would frequently resort 

 at break o'day. At Cambridge he found a similar attraction 

 in the neighbouring Newmarket Heath, from which it may 

 be inferred that any lack of interest displayed in the study of 

 mathematics or the classics, was amply made up for by an 

 ardent pursuit of equestrian knowledge ; in fact, had the 

 latter been a " test subject " upon leaving, he might as easily 

 have taken "honours" as his B.A. degree ! At that time 

 undergraduates, who could afford to do so, were allowed to 



