DEATH OF AUTHOR'S FATHER. 109 



He required a letter, reporting health, &c., and sent me 1840. 

 one in return, every day. 



On our return to Gower Street I went with my two little 

 children to Highgate for a very short time to be near my 

 father, who had had a stroke of paralysis. 



He died early in the next year, 1841, at the age of 1841. 

 84. His Cambridge life and early difficulties on the 

 subject of religion have been slightly referred to. He 

 had taken his degree as Second Wrangler, and had after- 

 wards had a Fellowship and a College living till scruples 

 of conscience led him to leave the Church ; and his sub- 

 sequent publication of a pamphlet entitled Peace and 

 Union was the cause of a prosecution by the University. 

 He was tried and sentenced to non-residence, but he re- 

 tained his Fellowship till his marriage with my mother, a 

 granddaughter of Archdeacon Blackburne. He had been 

 a pupil of Dr. Paley, for whom he always retained an 

 affection; and among his own pupils were Dr. Edward 

 Daniel Clarke, the traveller, Lord Lyndhurst, afterwards 

 Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Malthus, in whose social tenets 

 he entirely disclaimed any share. My father's political 

 opinions, as set forth in Peace and Union, were held 

 to be extreme eighty years ago ; they are as milk for babes 

 in comparison with the strong stimulants given by the 

 Liberal party now. 



He was after he left Cambridge a friend of Sir Francis 

 Burdett during the reforming portion of his life, of Home 

 Tooke, and of other reformers. What place he would have 

 taken in politics had he lived till now I can only conjecture. 

 He was a good Hebraist, and was trustee for Mr. Robert 

 Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholarship at Cambridge. His largest 

 work was on popular Astronomy as it was known then. 

 This book, entitled Evening Amusements, came out, a 

 volume every year, for nineteen years ; each volume show- 

 ing the relative positions of all the heavenly bodies for 

 every month in the year. 



My father's ideas on Algebra were peculiar; his re- 



