2 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



Bench in the Court of Chancery that he 

 himself had been born in a " charefoot." 

 It was in a "chare" of this kind that 

 William Scott, father of Lord Stowell and 

 Lord Eldon, passed his active and useful 

 life, and each of these great legal lumin- 

 aries remembered to his dying hour the 

 Grammar School at Newcastle in which their 

 education commenced. It was presided over 

 by a clergyman named Moises, of whom 

 Lord Eldon writes, in his " Anecdote Book," 

 that " The head master was that eminent 

 scholar and most excellent man, the Rev. 

 Mr. Moises, whose memory I shall hold in 

 the utmost veneration so long as I continue 

 to exist." Mr. William Scott " gathered 

 gear" enough as a "hoastman" or coal- 

 fitter, to send his two famous sons, William, 

 Lord Stowell, and John, Lord Eldon, to 

 Oxford, where the elder graduated at Corpus 

 Christi College in 1761, and the younger at 

 University College in 1766. 



It was due, however, to the industrious and 

 thrifty habits which the two boys picked up 

 at their father's well-ordered home in Love 

 Lane, Newcastle-on-Tyne, that when they 



