[146] Miss Holland writes—"His hair, when I know him, was beautifully fine, silvery, and abundant; rather taillé en brosse, like a Frenchman's."
[147] Lord Houghton.
[148] A hostile reviewer of his Sermons quotes from them such phrases as—"Lays hid," "Has sprang," "Has drank," "Rarely or ever."
[149] See p. 90.
[150] I have not attempted to make a catalogue of these jokes. Such catalogues will be found in the previous Memoirs of Sydney Smith, and in Sir Wemyss Reid's Life of Lord Houghton.
[151] Hugo Charles Meynell-Ingram (1784-1869), of Hoar Cross and Temple Newsam.
[152] (1808-1891), became 7th Duke of Devonshire in 1858.
[153] This insinuation was quite unfounded.
[154] It is pleasant to cite the testimony of Lord Houghton, who assured Mr. Stuart Reid that he "never knew, except once, Sydney Smith to make a jest on any religious subject; and then he immediately withdrew his words and seemed ashamed that he had uttered them."
[155] Spencer Perceval.