CHAPTER I. 



boyhood: 1819-36. JET. 1-16. 



Philip Pearsall was the youngest of the six children — three 

 daughters followed by three sons — of Lant and Anna Car- 

 penter, He was born at 2, Great George Street,* Bristol, 

 November 4, 18 19 — the anniversary of the landing of William 

 III. ; so his father wrote, " One thing is clear, that he is born a 

 Whig ; and if it were not for William Benjamin, we must have 

 called him King William." His first name was that of his 

 eldest uncle ; his second commemorated the friend by whom 

 his father had been adopted. The Memoirs of Dr. Lant Car- 

 penter, and the grateful tributes that have been paid to his 



* The vignette is from a sketch taken when the house was occupied as 

 a school for young ladies. "The wing" was added by Dr. L. Carpenter 

 in 1820, and soon after his death it was made a separate residence. 



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