XX MEMOIR. 
to which Oxford had also its social attractions for 
him ; for, besides the undergraduates of his own 
standing whom he knew, he was further privileged 
with the acquaintance of a few such men as the 
present Dean of Westminster — then Regius Pro- 
fessor of Ecclesiastical History in the University — 
the present distinguished Master of Balliol, the 
late Sir Benjamin Brodie, and Professor Henry 
Smith ; whilst the nature of his studies brought him 
into frequent pleasant intercourse with Professor 
Rolleston and others at the museum. The second 
year of his residence he sustained a loss, which 
he long felt. In the death of his young tutor, Mr. 
G. R. Luke, Senior Student of Christ Church, to 
whom he had formed no slight attachment. Of this 
event, rendered doubly sad by the circumstances 
under which it occurred, he wrote to a friend the 
day afterwards (March 4, 1862) as follows : — 
" Oxford," he says, " has just lost one of its 
brightest lights, and I a valuable friend, whom, I 
fear, I did not sufficiently appreciate In his lifetime 
— poor Luke ! It would be too much to say that 
there was not so good, but I can confidently assert 
that I do not think there was a better, man In 
Oxford. He was such a genuine, worthy, and 
conscientious fellow as Is rarely met with ; and his 
kindness was equalled by his noble spirit — his 
modesty by his high learning and abilities. And this 
