6 MY LIFE 



named Russell and Pugh, and are buried at Hertford. A 

 large gentleman's mourning ring in memory of Richard Rus- 

 sell, Esq., was given me by Miss Roberts, as, I presume, the 

 person after whom I was given my second name, though prob- 

 ably from an error in the register mine is always spelt with one 

 1, and this peculiarity was impressed upon me in my childhood. 

 Another ring is from Miss Pugh, a friend of my mother's, and, 

 I believe, one of the Russell family. We also possess a very 

 beautiful pastel miniature of Mrs. Frances Hodges, who was 

 a Miss Russell, and who died in 1809, and is buried at All 

 Saints, Hertford; but the precise relationship, if any, of the 

 Russells to the Greenells I have not been able to ascertain. 



One other point may be here mentioned. There seems to 

 have been some connection by marriage between the Wallace 

 and Greenell families before my father's marriage, as shown by 

 the fact that his elder brother, who died in infancy, was named 

 William Greenell Wallace, and it seems not unlikely that his 

 mother, Mrs. Dilke, had been a Miss Greenell before her first 

 marriage. 



I will now say a few words about my father's early life, 

 and the various family troubles which, though apparently very 

 disadvantageous to his children, may yet have been on the 

 whole, as is so often the case, benefits in disguise. 



My father, Thomas Vere Wallace, was twelve years old 

 when his father died, but his stepmother lived twenty-one 

 years after her husband, and I think it not improbable that 

 she may have resided in Marylebone near William Greenell 

 the architect, and that my father went to school there. The 

 only thing I remember his telling us about his school was that 

 his master dressed in the old fashion, and that he had a best 

 suit entirely of yellow velvet. 



When my father left school he was articled to a firm of 

 solicitors — Messrs. Ewington and Chilcot, Bond Court, Wal- 

 brook, I think, as I find this name in an old note-book of my 

 father's — and in 1792, when he had just come of age, he was 

 duly sworn in as an Attorney-at-Law of the Court of King's 



