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the mental struggle with its inevitable ending, largely set forth in 

 extracts from his own copious journal, is admirably told and is of 

 absorbing interest. In 1849 he served devotedly at St. Saviour's 

 through the terrible cholera epidemic of that year. in 18r)0 the 

 *'Oorham Judgment" in his and many another case hastened the final 

 decision between Anglicanism and Rome. In this year he was offered, 

 l)y Merton College, the rich living of Kibworth Ikauchamj), in W^ir- 

 wickshire, but by this time his scruples as to his position in the Church 

 had become so strong that in spite of much pressure from his family 

 he persisted in declining it. In 18")1 he acted as .senior Proctor in 

 Oxford. In 1852 he took the final step and was received into the 

 Church of Home at Houen l)y the Archbishop. His brother, Hnngerford, 

 of Rodbourne, who had all through been of the same mind as himself, 

 followed him shortly afterwards and was in consequence disinherited 

 by Sir John Pollen. Having decided not to enter the Roman priesthood 

 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at the Dublin Roman Catholic 

 I'niversity in 185."), in which year he married Maria, the 17-year-old 

 daughter of Charles John La Primaudaye who was before his conversion 

 to liome, Vicar of West Lavington, Sussex. At Dublin his most notable 

 work was the erection and decoration of the Roman Catholic University 

 Church — a building in the Byzantine Basilican style, a remarkable 

 forerunner of the Westminster Cathedral. In 1857, however, he re- 

 moved to London for the serious study and practice of decorative 

 l-ainting and architecture. In 1850 he had painted the ceiling of 

 Merton College Chapel, and in 1858 he was one of the band of ten 

 artists, with W. Morris, Rosetti, and Burne Jones among them, who 

 painted the roof of the Oxford Union Society's Hall. From 1860 onwards 

 he was well known and much employed as a decorative artist and 

 architect. Ingestre Hall, Wilton House, Kilkenny Castle, Blickling 

 Hall, were among the houses which he decorated with mural paintings 

 or ceilings. He was also the author of the scheme of decoration for 

 the outside of the New University Museum at Oxford, a scheme never 

 carried out in its entirety. From 18G3 to 187G he was Assistant Kee])er 

 of South Kensington Museum, and wrote many of the descriptive 

 handbooks for the different sections of the Museum. He also comi)iled 

 the " Universal Catalogue of Books on Art " and wrote many reports 

 on exhibitions, at several of which, including the Paris Exhibition of 

 1867, he acted as one of the jurors. He was also active in organising 

 loan exhibitions, and was a contributor of articles on art subjects to 

 many ])apers and magazines. Above all he was untiring in the acqui- 

 sition of fresh objects for the Museum. "He was a mine of anticpiarian 

 knowledge." In 1>^76 he became )>rivate secretary to the .Martpiis of 

 Ripon, whose coiUfisJMii to Itomc liad licfn aiiiiouiu-t'd two years before. 

 He died Dec. 2iul, liiuu, and was buried at Kensal (Jreen. A list of 

 the chief Decorative works executed by him between 1840 and 1900, 

 and a list of his written works (thirty-three itenis\ are given in the 

 appendix, .\ltogether a man of great accomplishment.s, of the sincerest 

 piety, and of a nature which endeared him to all wiio knew him — a 

 life of great charm and interest. laview<d Sptctator, July 'J7th ; 

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