18 KEW GARDENS 



says Horace Walpole, and sneers at him as unfit 

 to "teach the young Prince any arts but what 

 he knew himself hunting and drinking." For 

 Preceptor was chosen the Bishop of Norwich. 

 Under these figure-heads were the tutors who 

 should be about the royal children and do the 

 actual work of education. Stone, the sub- 

 governor, was a personal favourite of the King, "a 

 dark, proud man, very able and very mercenary. 

 As sub -preceptor, or real schoolmaster, was 

 kept on Mr. Scott, who had already been chosen 

 by the Princess to teach her sons, when she 

 found that at eleven Prince George could not 

 read English. Of him, in old age, George III. 

 spoke highly, and seems to have liked him best 

 of all his instructors. But he was suspected in 

 some quarters as recommended by Bolingbroke, 

 the author of that "patriot -king" theory so 

 abhorrent to Whigs. 



The question of the Regency had to be settled, 

 in case of the King's death before his grandson 

 came of age. That high office might have fallen 

 to George II.'s brother, the Duke of Cumberland, 

 between whom and his sister-in-law, the Princess 

 of Wales, no love was lost ; nor was he beloved 

 by the nation, least of all by the Jacobites. 



