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He was always one of my good friends, and his only trouble 

 was that, not having been educated at a Public School, 

 he was at first puzzled how to deal with examination 

 papers, for he had enough knowledge to answer the questions 

 so voluminously that he could not get through them in 

 the time. E. L. Vaughan, now a master at Eton, also 

 came up that term, as did H. D. Rawnsley, now a canon 

 and poet, but then an athlete of considerable prowesc. 

 There was Sackville Russell, clad in such uncouth garments 

 that I gave him the name of " Sackcloth " Russell. Poor 

 fellow ! He became Marquis of Tavistock and Duke of 

 Bedford, and died in 1893. A. H. Page was an 1870 

 man, and he is now Dean of Peterborough. Wilson had 

 come on from Rugby, and a new friend turned up in 

 E. F. Vicars, so immensely tall that when he first came 

 into a lecture-room someone quoted Alice "No one 

 more than a mile high is allowed in court." We all liked 

 Vicars. He was subject to fits of savage indignation over 

 trifles, and that alone was amusing, but there was really 

 true friendship for him on his own account, and many who 

 had not seen him for years sincerely regretted him when 

 he died, not along ago, at Eastbourne. 



Harking back to the 1868 undergraduates, I find among 

 them W. M. Sinclair, an excellent friend of mine, who 

 became Archdeacon of London, but he too has passed 

 over. Another who came up at that time was Richard 

 Ord, who is now so widely known as a handicapper. 



In 1869 there arrived the Earl of Elgin (of whom more 

 anon), R. H. Benson, the great long-distance runner; 

 Edwards-Moss, now Sir J. E. ; P. M. Kidd, notable now 

 as a physician ; William (" Billy ") Fairer (Rev.), and A. L. 

 Smith, now Master of Balliol. 



To pass on for a moment to 1871 there came up in 

 that year Arthur Saumarez (Hon.), C. Gore (Bishop of 

 Oxford, 1911), Baden-Powell, F. S. ; Henry Seymour 

 King (Sir) ; Lindsay Smith and Rowland Prothero, who, 

 with Vicars, had been at Marlborough. Smith is now 

 great in the banking world, while Prothero (Lord Ernie) 



