SETTLEMENT IN BRISTOL. 27 



reverence and gratitude. In his old master, Mr. Estlin, he 

 had the kindest and most judicious of counsellors. From 

 Mr. Stutchbury, the curator of the Museum in the Philoso- 

 phical Institution, he derived many a valuable fact in natural 

 history. The refined and cultivated companionship of Dr. 

 Symonds, afterwards the leading physician of the West of 

 England, and the beautiful musical skill of the Rev. S. C. 

 Fripp,* who played the organ at the Levvin's Mead Chapel, 

 ministered to a different side of his nature. And another 

 intimacy belonging to this period was a source of great 

 pleasure to him in after-years, when circumstances again 

 brought the two men together, — his acquaintance with Mr. 

 Francis William Newman, under whom his brother Philip 

 had studied at the Bristol College. When proposals were 

 started for removing Manchester New College from York 

 to Manchester, and it was known that this step would 

 involve the loss of the services of Mr. Kenrick, its eminent 

 teacher in the languages and literature of antiquity, Dr. 

 W. B. Carpenter wrote to his brother Russell in the follow- 

 ing terms: — 



November, 1839. 

 I wish, when you see Mr. Martineau, you would mention 

 Mr. Newman to him as classical tutor. He would also under- 

 take mathematics. I do not know whether it is considered 

 essential to have all Unitarians, but Mr. Newman is, I believe, 

 nearer one than anything else, and I cannot imagine any greater 

 advantage to the College than to have such a mind as his in 

 connection with it. Freedom of inquiry is his leading principle. 

 You know how logical he is, and what a beautiful spirituality 

 there is in his character.t 



The practice which Dr. W. B. Carpenter had now 

 resolved to seek, was not, however, easy to find. His 



* Mr. Fripp, father of the well-known artists, George and Alfred Fripp, 

 had left the Church of England on theological grounds. 



t The arrangement here suggested was, some time after, carried into 

 effect. 



