94 "MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!" 



One of Sir William Gallwey's sons, Lionel, went to 

 Rugby the same term that I did, but what has come of 

 him I know not. Then there was William Warner, who 

 has for many years been one of the leading luminaries 

 of Oxford. He was entered in our house only two months 

 later than myself. He was my great rival so far as school 

 distinction was concerned, but always one of my best 

 friends, both there and at Oxford. He was of quite a 

 different type from my other friends, being, indeed, of an 

 exemplary character, but he was a musician of quite rare 

 class as boys go and a pianist whom even the most 

 thoughtless could not fail to appreciate. Another con- 

 temporary in our house was Phipps John Hornby, now a 

 venerable archdeacon videlicet of Lancaster. He was, 

 in my time, " Young " Hornby, for his elder brother, 

 Hugh Phipps Hornby, was also among us, being one of 

 the 1863 entry. 



In January, 1867, there came to the school Charles 

 William Lloyd Bulpett, who developed into one of 

 the best long-distance runners of his day, and set up 

 a new record for the " Crick." He was in Wilson's 

 house, along with Selous and the others that I have 

 mentioned. 



Then another of the very best was Sydney Parker, son 

 of the then Lord Macclesfield, and he was one of the select 

 coterie in our house, where he came in May, 1867. Another 

 excellent sportsman was Ralph Thurston Bassett, entered 

 in 1866. It was to him more than to anyone else that I 

 propounded my great breeding theory, the formula of 

 which was : " Blair Athol's the blood ! " 



It may be well to refrain from a further extension of 

 this catalogue, but additional characters will drop in as 

 my story proceeds. 



It may seem strange, after my recent vicissitudes, that 

 I should have settled down very easily to work in the 

 Twenty, under" Jex-Blake, but it evidently was so, for it 

 was not more than three weeks after the beginning of that 

 winter term of 1866 when I wrote : 



