CHAPTER V 



MOTHER HUNT 



My Mother ! 



as I think is clearly just, we must canonize 

 " Pat " Currey (perhaps we ought to think of him 

 as " Mr." Pat Currey, as he was not an under- 

 graduate at the time, but a fellow and tutor), 

 it is even more evident that we should regard 

 " Mother " Hunt of Magdalene as our Consoli- 

 dator. Blessed Eowland of Boreatton is to Saint 

 Patrick of Lismore what Theodore of Tarsus was 

 to St. Augustine of Canterbury,or Dr. John Caius 

 (to whom I am " in private duty bound " or shall 

 be if ever I preach the University Sermon) to 

 Eadmund Gonville, Bishop of Norwich. Indeed 

 by analogy of the latter case he might justly be honoured as co-founder. 

 And it is but right that Magdalene, a College that has done more 

 than any other in Cambridge to keep alight the lamp of sport, should 

 have had the honour of his nurture. Great, however, as have been 

 his benefactions he is not entitled to have this chapter quite to 

 himself, as a corner must be kept for his Whip, secretary, andifidus 

 Achatus, P. Burges, for, to continue our ecclesiastical similes, Mr. 

 Burges was St. Lawrence to Mr. Hunt's Pope Callixtus. We are, by 

 the way, indebted to the former for the greater part of the informa- 

 tion contained in this chapter. 



As a preliminary, the following letter from Mr. H. Haines, w^ho 

 whipped in to T.F.B. under Mr. Cecil Tennant in season 1879-80, 



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