[266] Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland. Biographical Sketch and Letters, p. 166.
[267] Afterwards Sir Howard Elphinstone, K.C.B. He was the Prince’s governor from 1859.
[268] The pet family name of the Princess of Wales—obviously a contraction of Alexandra.
[269] Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, Vol. I., p. 373.
[270] Life of Norman Macleod, D.D., by the Rev. Donald Macleod, B.A., Vol. II., p. 252.
[271] The Barony parish of Glasgow was the one of which Macleod was minister. In one of his sermons, he had told his people that Scripture commanded them to sing the praises of God, not to grunt them. “But,” he added, “if you are so constituted physically that it is impossible for you to sing, but only grunt, then it is best to be silent.”
[272] Scots for dandle.
[273] Life of Norman Macleod, D.D., Vol. II., pp. 208, 209.
[274] Now Duke of Connaught.
[275] Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland. Biographical Sketch and Letters, p. 185.