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strenuous an advocate for the importance of classical as of mathematical 

 studies as part of a course of liberal education, as well as for admitting, 

 if not insisting on, the study of natural history and other branches of 

 Natural Science as a means of developing the intellectual faculties, 

 and of jurisprudence, not only for its intimate connexion with sytema- 

 tized morality, but as one of the best exercises in, and exemplifications 

 of, applied logic. 



In May 1841 he published his ' Mechanics of Engineering,' a most 

 useful and much-needed elementary treatise on the practical appli- 

 cation of mechanical principles to questions of construction and 

 machinery. In the summer of that year he married Cordelia, the 

 second daughter of John Marshall, Esq., M.P,, of Hallsteads and Pat- 

 terdale Hall, Cumberland, and in October of the same year succeeded 

 Dr. "Wordswortb in the Mastership of Trinity College, whicb he re- 

 tained during the remainder of his life. In this distinguished and 

 important office (to use the words of one excellently qualified to judge), 

 though " there were some who feared that the new Master would be 

 imperious and overbearing, their fears were dissipated by the result. 

 His government was, with scarcely an exception, the government of a 

 constitutional monarch, not of a despot. Of his rights and privileges he 

 was tenacious enough, but he preferred to delegate the active exercise 

 of his power, and its consequent responsibility^, to the several college 

 officers, and was best pleased when all went smoothly without reference 

 to him. He did not interpose nisi digniis vindice nodus, The Lodge 

 was the scene of generous hospitality, and received a constant succes- 

 sion of distinguished guests." His wife, a most amiable and excellent 

 lady, suffered for several years from a painful illness, during which his 

 care and attention were unremitting tbough unavailing; and in December 

 1855 he was left a widower. Erom the deep grief and distaste for his 

 usual philosopbical pursuits, and from the melancholy associations of 

 his college residence, he sought at length relief in a visit to Eome 

 (resigning his Professorship of Casuistry), where, however, with charac- 

 teristic eagerness for the continual accumulation of mental acquire- 

 ment, he devoted much of his time to perfecting his knowledge of the 

 Italian language, " taking lessons and writing exercises like the veriest 

 schoolboy." Eeturning, and resuming his college duties, in 1858 he 

 married Lady Affleck, widow of Sir Gilbert Affleck, a lady whose sweet 

 disposition and engaging manners rendered her universally beloved, 

 and contributed not a little to the increasing popularity with which he 

 at lengtb came to be regarded in the University, — the inherent dignity 

 and loftiness of his character, and the splendour of his reputation, now 

 universally recognized as adding lustre both to his college and to 

 the University, overcoming somewhat of a contrary feeling which, in 

 the earlier part of his career, had prevailed as the result of a certain 

 uncompromising stifihess of demeanour and impatience of opposition. 



