[70] “By a mistake of the Secretary, my name was omitted in the first list of the Committee.”
[71] Writing to his wife from Hazelwood on January 12th, 1830, he says: “I am engaged in my experiments with pendulums, which at present promise very well. Father is much interested in the matter. I tell you this, my dear, because I know you take a lively interest in everything I undertake.”
[72] Published by Simpkin and Marshall.
[73] The Arthur Hill Lifeboat, stationed at Fowey, is a memorial of the affection of many generations of scholars for their old master.—Ed.
[74] This was written in the year 1869. Eight years later—seventy-four years after the opening of Hill Top, and fifty years after the opening of Bruce Castle—the school passed out of the hands of any member of Sir Rowland Hill’s family. In justice to the present head-master, it should be stated that in the fifty-eight years that have elapsed since the publication of “Public Education,” great changes have been made in the system of government of the school.
[75] The reader will find the scheme described in Appendix E.
[76] The late Sir John Shaw-Lefevre, K.C.B.
[77] Assistant Secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners.
[78] The Society was later on joined by Dr. Arnott, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. Edwin Chadwick, Mr. Henry Cole, Mr. Arthur Symonds, Mr. Dilke, and Mr. Frederic Hill.
[79] See Southey’s “Life and Correspondence.” Vol. I., p. 216.