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THE LATE REV. W. R. LINTON. 
(WITH ee. 
in the October —_ 1869, he gave himself mainly eee. 
studies, in ya e had been well grounded at s His 
pron were kept within eure bounds—on ‘a cece, where 
won cups in 1870 and 1871 in - oe greg Fours ; 
on the running ground, where more than one prize for long- 
distance races fell to his share, nite in the foe ouart a game at 
tinued application, as proficient a scholar as in Greek or Latin. 
n had taken no great es in botany beyond 
accompanying his brother or the Rey. H. E. Fox (now Prebendary 
oolite q 
Oxford. A prize offered at school led to a collection of land and 
freshwater shells, which was continued for years, and added to in 
— trave 
In 1874 Linton was ordained by the Bishop ch ne ‘? = 
lectual side of clerical life appealed to rekg more bes ‘the pastoral. 
His strength lay in the study and exposition of Divinity and all 
Bib _ subjects, though in the more practical duties from which 
ould rather shrink he seems to have left his mark. The 
