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Charlotte, left Hildenley and bought a house in Gloucestershire, near 
Tewkesbury, having about three hundred acres of good land belonging 
to it, whither they went and have lived there ever since." 
In the Spring of 1820, when he was nine years old, a private 
tutor was engaged to instruct him at home, and from that period the 
beginning of his classical education may be dated. Although the 
regularity of the proposed plan of education was interrupted by 
accidental circumstances, it was still continued until the year 1827 
at his father's house. He then became a pupil of Dr. Arnold, before 
his appointment as headmaster of the Rugby School. In February, 
1822, he met with an accident arising from a boyish exertion of 
strength, which sprained his back, and rendered necessary his removal 
to London, where he was placed under the care of Dr. Harrison, an old 
friend of the family. For many months he was obliged to maintain 
a reclining position, and it was nearly twelve months before his 
health was completely restored. This long illness must have been 
irksome to a comparative child, but a taste for reading was formed 
and encouraged, and a bias was given which influenced the future 
inclinations of his mind. " It will be easy thus to perceive," his 
mother A\Tites, "the causes that seemed to encourage so marked 
a bias as lie had already shown in favour of the physical sciences. 
The country around our new residence at Henley, has a very different 
aspect in its beautiful woods and meadows from that of Flamborough 
and Filey, it abounds in subjects of interest sufficient to gratify the 
most determined naturalist, and it was no wonder that feeling himself 
restored to health and strengih he should eagerly return to those 
pursuits with delight, increased from the variety and novelty of a 
fresh field of observation," An additional encouragement had also 
arisen in the assistance of his brother Algernon, who had now arrived 
at an age to bring to memory the happy companionship of his much- 
loved brother Henry, and collections were formed and plans of classi- 
fication devised by these yet juvenile and simple naturalists. Whilst 
on a visit to Yorkshire to his uncle, Sir "William Strickland, in the 
Spring of 1824, he took the opportunity of going to Reighton, where 
he seems to have experienced a disappointment often felt by those 
who anticipate peculiar pleasure on revisiting the scenes of early 
