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when an undergraduate at Oxford, having 

 gained the Latin university prize. 



Third generation. 10 males and 13 females, 

 of whom 2 males deserve mention: (l) Sir 

 William Vernon Harcourt, M.P., lately solicitor- 

 general, professor of international law at Cam- 

 bridge, well known as a political writer under 

 the name " Historicus " ; (2) Augustus G. Vernon 

 Harcourt, F.R.S., a distinguished chemist, Lee's 

 reader in chemistry at Oxford. 



HILL. The characteristics of this family 

 are, active interest in social improvement, 

 power of organization, mechanical aptitude, and 

 general sterling worth. Its type in the second 

 generation seems to have been unusually pure. 



First generation. Thomas Wright Hill, de- 

 scended from stanch Independents, and married 

 to a wife of equal vigour and fortitude, who 

 came from a family noted for mechanical apti- 

 tude, which she transmitted to her descendants. 

 He rose by his own exertions, and (aet. 40) estab- 

 lished a school, much spoken of at the time, on 

 an entirely new principle of management at Hazel- 



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