[262] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXVIII.
[263] Greville Memoirs, Third Part, Vol. I., p. 310.
[264] Greville Memoirs, Third Part, Vol. I., p. 315.
[265] Sir G. C. Lewis’s Letters, p. 309.
[266] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. II., p. 37.
[267] Life of the Prince Consort, Chap. LXX. Sir Theodore, when he penned this, had not seen Mr. Disraeli’s cynical letter to Lord Malmesbury, otherwise he would probably not have added “such generosity among statesmen may always be counted on as a matter of course.”
[268] This was a nickname which Serjeant Hayes had stuck to Parke on account of his prejudice in favour of fossilised forms and precedents.—Life of Lord Campbell, Vol. II., p. 388.
[269] Life of Lord Campbell, Vol. II., p. 340.
[270] Mr. Babbage, Dr. Lyon Playfair, and Sir R. Murchison, it was said, were to be the first batch of life scientific peers.
[271] Greville Memoirs, Third Part, Vol. II., p. 51.