334 THE FIFTH DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G. 



wick, where he remained until, a few months 

 later, he was moved to Westminster School. I 

 have it on the authority of some of his contem- 

 poraries at Westminster, especially the late Lord 

 Stradbroke, that he was most attentive to his 

 studies. In addition, he had all the inherent 

 courage of his race, and it cannot be doubted 

 that had he been sent to either of the Univer- 

 sities, he would have become a fairly good scholar. 

 Quick of perception, and gifted with a retentive 

 memory, he was one of the most assiduous and 

 persevering of men. 



Even in boyhood the love of discipline, for 

 which he was celebrated in the Peninsula, was 

 very marked. But his most noticeable and lov- 

 able quality was his hatred of oppression, which 

 led him to interpose on behalf of the weak when- 

 ever threatened or attacked by a bully or tyrant. 

 At school, for instance, it signified nothing that 

 the aggressor was several inches taller and a stone 

 heavier than himself; for in more than one of the 

 fights in which his Grace, then Mr Lennox, was 

 engaged, he held his own successfully against 

 older and bigger boys than himself. It was a 

 fighting era, as may be seen from Sir Denis Le 

 Marchant's ' Life of Viscount Althorp,' and Mrs 

 Henry Baring's ' Autobiography of the Hight 

 Honourable William Windham.' In fact every 

 record of our great public schools between 1780 

 and 1840 shows that fights between boys were 



