[35] Sir Francis Burdett, Radical M.P. for Westminster, and father of Lady Burdett Coutts.
[36] William Cobbett, M.P. for Oldham, an extraordinary man, who started life as a private soldier, and by his own unaided exertions acquired a position of considerable importance.
[37] Query—Paced?—Printers Devil.
[38] Fellows of Colleges are not so destitute of feeling as to forget their “Old Friend.”
[39] Sir Richard Steele.
[40] Sir Richard Blackmore.
[41] Sir Richard Cox.
[42] Father of Mr. J. L. Toole, the popular comedian.
[43] Alfred Bunn, the lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, was a fortune to the small wits of the day. He wrote the librettos for some operas, which were neither better nor worse than the average of such productions. Punch bitterly attacked him, but he retaliated in “A word with Punch” which effectually silenced that individual.
Bunn brought out the wonderfully successful Operatic Singer, Jenny Lind. He died in 1860.