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A year later, and in 1836, gradually the inquiry fell upon attentive ears as to what these Conservative principles were. Before Coningsby and his friends left Eton Coningsby for Cambridge, and Millbank for Oxford they were resolved to contend for political faith rather than for mere partisan success or personal ambition. II. A Portrait of a Lady
In the spring of 1800, accordingly, I went up to Eton, for the purpose of joining my friend. Here I several times visited the gardens of the queen's villa at Frogmore; and, privileged by my young friend's introduction, I had opportunities of seeing and hearing the queen and all the princesses; which at that time was a novelty in my life, naturally a good deal prized.
Seeing the extraordinary talents of his third son, William Ewart, Sir John Gladstone spared neither pains nor money on his education, sending him to Eton in 1821, at the age of twelve, where he remained till 1827, learning chiefly Latin and Greek. Here he was the companion and friend of many men who afterward became powerful forces in English life, political, literary, and ecclesiastical.
A dangerous illness had occasioned his removal from Eton, and he had since been at home, reading with his cousin Mr. Devereux, and sharing his sisters' amusements. Jane was in her own estimation an important member of the administration, and in fact, was Emily's chief assistant and deputy.
Allen was gone to Eton, but Janet and Bobus had many discussions over their chemical experiments, about possibilities and probabilities, odd compounds of cleverness and ignorance. "Mother must be heir-at-law, for her grandmother was eldest," said Janet. "A woman can't be heir-at-law," said Bobus. "The Salique law doesn't come into England."
Miscellaneous writer, b. near Dublin, ed. privately and at Trinity Coll., Dublin. He wrote Riders to the Sea, In the Shadow of the Glen , The Well of the Saints , The Play Boy of the Western World , and The Aran Islands . Poet, eldest s. of the 2nd Lord, ed. at Eton and Oxf., was for a time attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople.
Lord Holland had taken his family abroad, and Charles James Fox, whose brilliant public career Carlisle had foretold in verse at Eton, was a congenial companion during a part of his continental travels. Carlisle at this epoch of his life is an interesting study.
He had a vague thought at first of retrenching his expenditure, and making young Randal Leslie his heir. But when he first saw the clever Eton boy, his feelings did not warm to him, though his intellect appreciated Randal's quick, keen talents. He contented himself with resolving to push the boy, to do what was merely just to the distant kinsman of his late wife.
I have already arranged with him that we shall have it out between ourselves alone, in the jungle, stripped to the buff, with our fists Queensberry rules! I haven't fought since I stood up against Spinks Major you remember old Spinks, now of the Bombay Offensibles? at Eton." And the old boy pluckily bared his skinny arm. "It may be serious," I said. "I have thought of that.
In August, 1757, his mother placed him at Eton where he remained about six years, at the end of which time he was removed to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Like many others, he acknowledges the illusion of considering our school-boy days as the happiest of life.
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