xxvi MEMOIR. 



This is a tolerable list of occupations, in addition 

 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 distinguished Master of Balliol, and others 

 since deceased, including the late Dean of West- 

 minster — then Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical 

 History in the University — -the late Sir Benjamin 

 Brodie, and Professor Henry Smith ; whilst the 

 nature of his studies brought him into frequent 

 pleasant intercourse with the late 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 



