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He was "suckled in a creed outworn" of Eldonian Toryism, but soon exchanged it for Gladstonian Liberalism, and this, again, he suffused with an energetic spirit of State Socialism on which Mr. Gladstone would have poured his sternest wrath. A friend writes: "I don't remember that H. S. H., when he was an undergraduate, took much interest in politics more than chaffing others for being so Tory."
"The law-professor," the ex-Chancellor used to relate with true Eldonian humor and fancy "sent me the first lecture, which I had to read immediately to the students, and which I began without knowing a single word that was in it. Such a tittering audience no one ever had."
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