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FOOTNOTES

[1] He was created a baronet in 1837.

[2] Later Queen Victoria.

[3] “Highly cultivated, of a noble presence, of warm heart, of great social faculty, and of unaffected piety, he was one of the best specimens of a type of clergymen who were never very common, and are now fast disappearing—those who combine in their purity the character of a priest with that of the fine old English country gentleman.” Times, 23rd February 1866.

[4] Croft West, five miles out of Truro, is now (1906) a farmhouse, the flagged stones of the kennels remaining.

[5] In 1887 my friend Dr. Norman Moore, having been summoned to Algiers to see a patient, was on his return seated at dinner in an hotel at Toulouse, and being the only guest, in talking to the waiter asked, “Is there anyone left of the D’Arragon family?” “Oh no,” he said; “the last of them, a young lady, eloped with an English officer after the battle, 1814. When you have finished your dinner, if you come to the window, I will show you the bridge on which they met; and she carried her bag with some clothes, to show that she met him of her own accord.” Norman Moore, who knew the story, said, “Yes, but the bag was not much bigger than a bonbonnière.” He greatly interested the waiter by showing he knew much about the family.

[6] He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1843.

[7] An account-book, carried by soldiers of all European armies, showing their service, with statements of pay received, and due.