1836-1837.] 



EDINBURGH. 



fellows were some from the Bristol College : they obtained the 

 first "general competition prizes/' Philip ranking third. He 

 felt the pleasant stimulus of belonging to a body of a thousand 

 students : "You know I was always 4 Jowler, my dog, a social 

 beast/ " 



The brothers attended the Unitarian chapel (St. Mark's), 

 and' the minister, Rev. B. J. Stannus, asked Philip, who was 

 nothing loth, to take his youngest catechetical class ; and soon 

 afterwards he became the morning organist, delighting to play 

 voluntaries from the works of the great masters. On the close 

 of the session, at the end of April, he returned to Bristol. 



In September, 1837, Philip accompanied the writer to 

 " Manchester College," York. This college, which, since 1853, 

 has been established near University College, London, " is the 

 successor and representative of a long series of academical 

 institutions " which English Presbyterians maintained \o pro- 

 vide university learning for their future ministers and others, 

 who were excluded as Nonconformists from Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge. It was founded at Manchester in 1786, soon after the 

 dissolution of the celebrated Warrington Academy; and was 

 removed to York in 1803, to be under the charge of the Rev. 

 C. Wellbeloved, Mr. Wellbeloved was a man of profound 

 learning, and a devoted student His principal publication 

 was a translation of the Pentateuch and the devotional 

 and didactic books of Scripture, with notes. In 1823-24 he 

 engaged in controversy with Archdeacon Wrangham, who had 

 animadverted on Unitarianism, and many of his students were 

 kindled with proselytizing zeal. But doctrinal discussions 

 were not to his taste, and at this later period he rebuked one 

 of his students who had been distributing Unitarian tracts in a 

 neighbouring village, intimating that, while still at college, he 

 was not qualified to form a decided opinion. Old age, and 

 the Chancery suit then pending against the trustees of Lady 

 Hewley (who had been a member of the congregation to which 

 he ministered), had rendered him somewhat desponding. In 

 earlier days he had taken a leading part in local institutions, 

 and no one was held as a higher authority on the antiquities 



