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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
[CH. IX. 
gas, the fresh and obtrusively level floor, and the unusual 
sight of ladies in the boys’ sitting-room, were all contrary 
to ordinary experiences. 
“ The Bishop proposed that some of the great public 
schools of England should contribute a sum of money to 
buy land, then naturally very cheap in the colony, and that 
the land so acquired should be the endowment of scholar¬ 
ships in his college, to be named respectively after the 
various schools. He paid his own school the compliment 
of coming to it first. The proposal was received with 
acclamation, and money afterwards subscribed to carry 
out the object. The proceedings of the evening concluded 
by the handing of some choice Lunel wine, to which no 
one made any conscientious objections. I vividly recall 
the geniality of the Dean’s manner, and the kindness and 
hospitality shown me by both the Dean and Mrs. Buckland 
at the Deanery.” 
There is a tablet, it is said, in the Hall of St. Peter’s 
College, Adelaide, which records the foundation of this 
scholarship, which took place on St. Peter’s Day, 1847. 
Dr. Short was consecrated Bishop of Adelaide with three 
other colonial bishops,—Dr. Gray, Bishop of Capetown ; 
Dr. Perry, Bishop of Melbourne ; Dr. Tyrrell, Bishop of 
Newcastle : the bishoprics of Adelaide and Capetown being 
endowed by the munificence of Miss (now Baroness) Burdett- 
Coutts. It was while this solemn ceremony, which lasted 
four hours, was going on in the Abbey that a fight took 
place in the “ Green,” the square enclosure within the 
cloisters. Mr. Walter Severn, the son of the well-known 
artist who soothed the dying hours of Keats, thus tells 
this highly characteristic story of Westminster School life 
Then for the first time used in college. 
