CHAPTER V 



CAMBRIDGE 



Trinity College First vacation at the Lakes Second vacation at 

 Aberfeldy College friends Entire breakdown in health Third 

 vacation in Germany My father's death 



IT was a notable day in my life when, in the year 

 1840, escorted by my father on the top of a 

 stage coach, I caught my first view of the principal 

 buildings of Cambridge. There was no railway to 

 Cambridge then. I had been entered at Trinity 

 College, where rooms were assigned to me on the 

 first floor of B. New Court. My tutor was J. W. 

 Blakesley (1808-1885), an accomplished classical 

 scholar, contemporary with Tennyson and his set, 

 and subsequently Dean of Lincoln. The then Master 

 of the College, who, however, resigned his post after 

 the close of my first term, was Christopher Words- 

 worth (1774-1846), brother of the poet and father 

 of three distinguished classical scholars, - - John ; 

 Charles, Bishop of St. Andrew's ; and Christopher, 

 the headmaster of Harrow. The biographies of 

 them all appear in the Diet. Nat. Biog. I found but 

 few old friends among the undergraduates besides 

 Matthew Boulton, but gradually fell into my place. 

 I soon became conscious of the power and thorough- 

 ness of the work about me, as of a far superior order 



to anything I had previously witnessed. At the 



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