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ing the first day of my return after the holidays, 'Boy! the school is your father! Boy! the school is your mother! Boy! the school is your brother! the school is your sister! the school is your first cousin, and your second cousin, and all the rest of your relations! Let's have no more crying!'" Leigh Hunt in his autobiography also has reminiscences of Boyer and Feilde. James Boyer or Bowyer was born in 1736, was admitted to the school in 1744, and passed to Balliol. He resigned his Upper Grammar Mastership in 1799, and probably retired to the rectory of Gainscolne to which he had been appointed by the school committee six years earlier. They also gave him L500 and a staff. Page 23, line 6 from foot. _Author of the Country Spectator_. Thomas Fanshaw Middleton (1769-1822), afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, who was at school with Lamb and Coleridge. In the little statuette group which is called the Coleridge Memorial, subscribed for in 1872, on the centenary of Coleridge's birth, and held in rotation by the ward in which most prizes have been gained in the year, Middleton is the tallest figure. It is reproduced in my large edition. The story which it celebrates is to the effect that Middleton found Coleridge reading Virgil in the playground and asked him if he were learning a lesson. Coleridge replied that he was "reading for pleasure," an answer which Middleton reported to Boyer, and which led to Boyer taking special notice of him. The _Country Spectator_ was a magazine conducted by Middleton in 1792-1793. Page 23, line 3 from foot. _C----_. Coleridge again. Page 24, line 4. _Lancelot Pepys Stevens_. Rightly spelled Stephens, afterwards Under Grammar Master at the school. Page 24, line 6. _Dr. T----e_. Arthur William Trollope (1768-1827), who succeeded Boyer as Upper Grammar Master. He resigned in 1826. Page 24, line 21. _Th----_. Sir Edward Thornton (1766-1852), diplomatist, who was sent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Lower Saxony, to Sweden, to Denmark and other courts, afterwards becoming minister to Portugal. Page 24, line 23. _Middleton_. See note above. The treatise was _The Doctrine of the Greek Article as applied to the Criticism and the Illustration of the New Testament_, 1808. It was directed chiefly against Granville Sharpe. Middleton was the first Bishop of Calcutta. Page 24, line 8 from foot. _Richards_. This was George Richards (1767-1837). His poem on "Aboriginal
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