FOOTNOTES:
[1] Farms near Ecclefechan to which his parents moved in 1814 and 1826.
[2] Emerson, English Traits, 'World's Classics' edition, p. 8.
[3] The most famous course, on Hero-Worship, was delivered in May, 1840.
[4] Afterwards Lord and Lady Ashburton.
[5] Froude, Carlyle, Life in London, vol. ii, pp. 100 and 217.
[6] Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies, p. 17 (Longmans, 1907).
[7] Sir James Graham, afterwards Home Secretary under Peel in 1841.
[8] Since his father's death, in 1830, Peel had been member for Tamworth.
[9] Correspondence of Sarah, Lady Lyttelton, by Maud Wyndham (Murray, 1912).
[10] The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton, began to advocate repeal in 1837, four years before Cobden entered Parliament.
[11] Morley's Life of Gladstone, vol. i, pp. 297-300 (cf. Gladstone's own retirement in 1874).
[12] Ceded to Great Britain in 1815 and given by her in 1864 to Greece.
[13] His first wife, whom he married in 1827, died in 1832. He married again in 1835.
[14] The dual control of British India by the Crown and the East India Company lasted from 1778 to 1858.
[15] To help church work by adding to the number of clergy.
[16] See articles in D.N.B. on Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835) and on Richard Oastler (1789-1861).
[17] 'Talukdār' in the north-west, 'zamīndār' in Bengal.
[18] 'Doāb' = land between two rivers.
[19] Created Lord Napier of Magdala after storming King Theodore's fortress in 1868.
[20] See G. M. Trevelyan, Life of John Bright, pp. 384-5.
[21] See Fitzmaurice, Life of Lord Granville, vol. i, p. 540.
[22] Charles Dickens, Social Reformer, by W. W. Crotch (Chapman & Hall, 1913), p. 53.
[23] In Memoriam, c.
[24] Lines written in 1837 and published in the Manchester Athenæum Album, 1850.
[25] The portrait of 1838 by Samuel Laurence, of which the original is at Aldworth, speaks for itself.
[26] Tennyson, by Stopford Brooke (Isbister, 1894).
[27] Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, by his son, vol. i, p. 209 (Macmillan & Co.).
[28] Robert Browning, by Edward Dowden, p. 173 (J. M. Dent & Co.).
[29] See Memoir, by Hallam, Lord Tennyson, vol. i, p. 283 (Macmillan).
[30] 'God and the Universe,' from Death of Oenone, &c. Macmillan, (1892.)
[31] For a few weeks in 1844 he was curate of Pimperne in Dorset.
[32] See Preface by T. Hughes prefixed to later editions of Alton Locke.
[33] Sir Henry Taylor, author of Philip van Artevelde and other poems, and a high official of the Colonial Office.
[34] Sir Anthony Panizzi, an Italian political refugee, the most famous of librarians. He served the British Museum from 1831 to 1866.
[35] '"Hure: tête hérissée et en désordre"; se dit d'un homme qui a les cheveux mal peignés, d'un animal, &c.'—Littré.
[36] His allegorical subjects are in the Tate Gallery; his portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.
[37] Life and Episcopate of G. A. Selwyn, by H. W. Tucker, 2 vols. (Wells Gardner, 1879).
[38] Melanesia, from Greek μἑλας=black, νησος=island.
[39] Bishop Selwyn (Primate), Bishop Abraham of Wellington, and Bishop Hobhouse of Nelson.
[40] This island had lately been colonized by settlers from Pitcairn Island, descended from the mutineers of the Bounty, marooned in 1789.
[41] Life of John Coleridge Patteson, by Charlotte Yonge, 2 vols. (Macmillan, 1874).
[42] The Latin form in which this epigram was originally couched—mentiendi causa—does away with all ambiguity.
[43] The ill-fated Emperor Frederick III, who died of cancer in 1888.
[44] Memoirs of Sir Robert Morier, 1826-76, by his daughter, Lady Rosslyn Wemyss, vol. i, p. 303 (Edward Arnold, 1911).
[45] Sir James Hudson, G.C.B., British minister at Turin during the years of Cavour's great ministry; died 1885.
[46] Sir Horace Rumbold, G.C.B., Ambassador at Vienna 1896-1900; died 1913.
[47] W. E. Henley, poet and critic, 1849-1903. His poems, 'In Hospital' include also a very beautiful sonnet on 'The Chief'—Lister himself, which almost calls up his portrait to one who has once seen it: 'His brow spreads large and placid.... Soft lines of tranquil thought.... His face at once benign and proud and shy.... His wise rare smile.'
[48] Professor Volkmann of Halle and Professor von Nussbaum of Munich.
[49] Restricted to thirty German and thirty foreign members.
[50] Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, by G. B.-J., 2 vols. (Macmillan, 1904).
[51] Letter quoted in Life of Morris, by J. W. Mackail, vol. i, p. 257 (Longmans, Green & Co., 1911).
[52] Other easily accessible examples are in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge.
[53] William Morris, by A. Clutton-Brock (Williams and Norgate, 1914).
[54] Life of Morris, by J. W. Mackail, vol. ii, pp. 133-9.
[55] Mr. Hyndman (Story of an Adventurous Life, p. 355) describes a visit to the Bodleian Library at Oxford with Morris, and how 'quickly, carefully, and surely' he dated the illuminated manuscripts.
[56] Rev. J. B. Mozley, 1813-78. Canon of Worcester and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford: a Tractarian; author of essays on Strafford, Laud, &c.
[57] The first edition of Bryce's Holy Roman Empire was published in 1862.
[58] Pragmatic: 'treating facts of history with reference to their practical lessons.' Concise Oxford Dictionary.
[59] Clio and other Essays, by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 4 (Longmans, Green & Co., 1913).
[60] C. D. Rudd (1844-96), educated at Harrow and Cambridge.
[61] Alfred Beit, born at Hamburg, 1853; died in London, 1906.
[62] Barney Barnato, born in Houndsditch, 1852; died at sea, 1897.
[63] Perhaps the best character sketch of Rhodes is that printed as an appendix to Sir E. T. Cook's Life of Edmund Garrett (Edward Arnold, 1909). Garrett's career as journalist and politician in South Africa was terminated by illness in 1899.
[64] General Jacobus Delarey, one of the most successful commanders in the Great Boer War of 1899-1902.
[65] Cecil Rhodes: a Monograph and a Reminiscence, by Sir Thomas Fuller (Longmans & Co., 1910)