102 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1839. Very soon after the establishment of the London 



University, young men of Jewish parentage began to 

 distinguish themselves by their rapid acquirement of 

 knowledge, thus justifying the hopes of their co-re- 

 ligionists who had contributed so liberally to the founda- 

 tion. During the years in which my husband was Professor, 

 many Jews took the highest honours ; and among his 

 most attached and valued Jewish pupils, the late Mr. 

 Nuina Hartog was the last, and Mr. Jacob Waley the 

 first. Mr. Hartog's career, unhappily cut short before 

 he had applied his talents to the work of life, was a bril- 

 liant one. After taking all the honours that could be 

 given in University College, he went to Cambridge, and 

 took his degree as Senior Wrangler. But the mental 

 work was too much for his strength, and an attack of 

 small-pox in 1872 left him too weak to rally. 



Jacob Mr. Jacob Waley, afterwards Professor of Law, was 



one of the first Jewish students, after my husband's return 

 to his Professorship, of whom the College had reason to be 

 proud. He was not only a successful student in class, but 

 a diligent private pupil, and from the time of which I 

 write till his death in 1873 a valued friend. His lessons 

 at our house in Gower Street were pleasant to both teacher 

 and pupil, and even to myself, for he would come to me 

 when they were done, for a little talk about books, or 

 a reading of his favourite writer Macaulay's Lays or 

 Essays. Mr. Waley was the first M.A. of the University 

 of London, -which in 1836 was ready to confer degrees on 

 students of* its affiliated Colleges in London and else- 

 where. Some of us now living may remember Lord 

 Brougham's reference to this pupil in a speech made at a 

 distribution of prizes at the time, and possibly too some 

 may remember how the speaker dwelt upon the fact (which 

 was a fact then, and we had heard it so often that we were 

 tired of hearing it) that within those walls men of every 

 religion were received, whether as teacher or student, 

 without any reference to their beliefs or non-beliefs. The 



