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on April 9th, 1828. He was educated first at St. Paul's School, 

 Portsmouth, from which place, at the early age of 14, he went alone 

 to Mannheim, in the Duchy of Baden. He afterwards matriculated 

 at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1850, 

 immediately after which he came to Eton, first as Assistant Mathe- 

 matical Master to the late Rev. S. Hawtrey. In 1855, when 

 Mathematics became an integral part of the school-teaching (which 

 they had not been previously), he was duly appointed one of the 

 Assistant Mathematical Masters of the School, which office he con- 

 tinued to hold till the year 1873, when Physical Science having been, 

 by order of the Governing Body of Eton, constituted one of the 

 subjects to be taught in the school, Mr. Hale, who had marie that 

 subject his especial study, was appointed to be one of its teachers, 

 and he continued to teach it till the day of his death. 



At the time of Mr. Hale's first appointment there were very few 

 of the Eton Masters who had not previously been Eton boys them- 

 selves. Mr. Hale, as we have seen, had not been educated at Eton, 

 but his kindly nature and hearty goodfellowship soon overcame such 

 a disadvantage, if, indeed, it could be called one, in the minds of his 

 colleagues and pupils. 



Edward Hale was ordained at Cuddesdon in 1851, and took 

 Priest's orders in 1853, the then Vicar of Windsor conferring upon 

 him the title necessary for ordination, on account of parish-work 

 done by him as Assistant-Curate in the poorer parts of Windsor. 

 He was elected a Eellow of the Geological Society in 1873. He 

 married in 1855, and leaves a family of three sons and four daughters 

 to lament his loss. He died on July 25th, 1894, at his residence, 

 Jordley's Place, Eton, in his 67th year. 



No Eton master was better known, and none was better liked. 

 Prom the first moment that he entered the school he never had an 

 enemy among his colleagues or his pupils. He was one of those 

 men whose very presence and manner inspire confidence and engage 

 friendship. Of the many who as boys lived in his house, and were 

 subject to his rule, there was not one wbo did not regard him with 

 affection as well as respect. They liked him the better, because 

 they knew that, with all his invariable kindness of heart, he would 

 insist on being obeyed. Bluff and genial in appearance, his manner 

 had a rare and magnetic frankness and bonhomie that at once put 

 you at your ease. All young children liked him, and what greater 

 testimony than this can there be to a man's lovable nature ? 



