[[3]] Alexandrina Lady Portarlington (a daughter of the third Marquess of Londonderry) was sister-in-law to the seventh Duke of Marlborough, Bute's host at Blenheim. Lord and Lady North, who were received into the Church about this time, were not very distant neighbours of Blenheim, living at Wroxton Abbey, near Banbury.
[[4]] Second baronet of Gatcombe, Hants. He died in 1869, in his eighty-third year.
[[5]] A former curate of Dr. F. G. Lee at Aberdeen. He became a canon of Westminster and president of St. Edmund's College, Ware.
[[6]] M.A. of Aberdeen University; afterwards the distinguished Jesuit writer and preacher.
[[7]] Became a Jesuit, rector of Wimbledon College, and later first Master of Campion Hall, Oxford.
[[8]] This was Aug. Theiner's "Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum atque Scotorum, historiam illustrantia, 1216-1547," published at Rome in 1864.
[[9]] More than a dozen years later Bute wrote to his friend regretting her ignorance of "the dead languages," and recommending her to begin the study of Hebrew!
[[10]] Miss Skene had lived with her father at Athens continuously from her eighteenth to her twenty-fourth year, and was well acquainted with the language and literature of modern Greece.
[[11]] The allusion, no doubt, is to his projected translation of the Roman Breviary, published eleven years later.
[[12]] The convent of Marie Réparatrice, founded at Harley House, Marylebone, in 1862. It was transferred in 1899 to Willesden, and a year later to its present site at Chiswick.