Page 24, line 4. Lancelot Pepys Stevens. Rightly spelled Stephens, afterwards Under Grammar Master at the school.
Page 24, line 6. Dr. T——e. Arthur William Trollope (1768-1827), who succeeded Boyer as Upper Grammar Master. He resigned in 1826.
Page 24, line 21. Th——. Sir Edward Thornton (1766-1852), diplomatist, who was sent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Lower Saxony, to Sweden, to Denmark and other courts, afterwards becoming minister to Portugal.
Page 24, line 23. Middleton. See note above. The treatise was The
Doctrine of the Greek Article as applied to the Criticism and the
Illustration of the New Testament, 1808. It was directed chiefly
against Granville Sharpe. Middleton was the first Bishop of Calcutta.
Page 24, line 8 from foot. Richards. This was George Richards (1767-1837). His poem on "Aboriginal Britons," which won a prize given in 1791 by Earl Harcourt, is mentioned favourably in Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Richards became vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and a Governor of Christ's Hospital. He founded a gold medal for Latin hexameters.
Page 24, foot. S—— … M——. According to the Key "Scott, died in
Bedlam," and "Maunde, dismiss'd school."
Page 24, foot. "Finding some of Edward's race." From Prior's Carmen
Seculare for 1700:—
Finding some of Stuart's race
Unhappy, pass their annals by.
Lamb alters Stuart to Edward because Edward VI. founded Christ's
Hospital.
Page 25, line 12. C.V. Le G——. Charles Valentine Le Grice (1773-1858), whom we meet also in the essay on "Grace Before Meat." Le Grice, in his description of Lamb as a schoolboy in Talfourd's Memorials, remarked: "I never heard his name mentioned without the addition of Charles, although, as there was no other boy of the name of Lamb, the addition was unnecessary; but there was an implied kindness in it, and it was a proof that his gentle manners excited that kindness."