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Updated: June 22, 2025
There are extravagances, theatricalities, impossibilities enough. The Gothic princes comport themselves like British seamen ashore in Suez or Bombay; Raphael talks like young Lancelot Smith in Yeast; Hypatia is a Greek Argemone; and Bishop Synesius is merely an African fifth-century Charles Kingsley, what Sydney Smith called a "squarson," or compound of squire and parson.
Many of them were excellent people, with a mild taste for literature, contributing to the Gentleman's Magazine, investigating the antiquities of their county, occasionally confuting a deist, exerting a sound judgment in cultivating their glebes or improving the breed of cattle, and respected both by squire and farmers. The 'Squarson, in Sydney Smith's facetious phrase, was the ideal clergyman.
He was still young enough to leave behind him Parson Frank and the 'squarson' habits of Hillside in which he had grown up; and the higher and more spiritual side of his nature had been fostered by the impressions of the last year.
It was a family living, always held conjointly with a tolerably good estate, enough to qualify the owner for the dangerous position of 'squarson, as no doubt many a clerical Underwood had been ever since their branch had grown out from the stem of the elder line, which had now disappeared.
To finish my chapter on a merrier note, I will mention an amusing episode connected with the evening of the black kitten's appearance. Amongst the guests invited to that dinner-party was a clergyman-squire, a man of some means who had taken orders. A "squarson" is the "portmanteau name" for such a gentleman in Yorkshire, I believe; one who combines squire and parson.
He held the sacrosanct position of a squarson, being at once Squire and Parson of the parish of Little Wentley. To this desirable home and opulent share of earth's good things did Mr. St. John Deloraine succeed in boyhood. He went to Oxford, he travelled a good deal, he was held in great favor and affection by the County matrons and the long-nosed young ladies of the County.
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