[91] See p. 289.
[92] I was altogether a disappointment to Professor Jowett. I did not get on in the line in which he wished me to get on, and in what I was able to do in after life he had no interest whatever. He dropped me after I left Oxford. I seldom saw him again, and he never knew, perhaps, how grateful I felt for his long-ago kindness. Professor Benjamin Jowett died at Headley Hall, in Hampshire, October 1, 1893.
[93] Of Eccles Greig, near Forfar.
[94] It would be impossible to discover a more perfect old "gentleman" than Dr. Plumptre, though he was often laughed at. When he was inquiring into any fault, he would begin with, "Now pray take care what you say, because whatever you say I shall believe." He had an old-fashioned veneration for rank, and let Lord Egmont off lectures two days in the week that he might hunt—"it was so suitable."
[95] Dr. Hawkins.
[96] Dean Gaisford.
[97] Walter Berkeley, 4th son of the 1st Viscount Portman.
[98] This was so at that time: now it would be thought nothing of.
[99] Wife of John Henry Parker, the publisher, a peculiar but excellent person.
[100] The portrait of Mrs. Hare Naylor by Flaxman, now at Holmhurst.