Metropolis, was long and narrow. If you turned off to the right
you came to the Market-place, where were the leading shops. On your left
you reached the Quay and the river, where a few coasters were employed,
chiefly in the coal and corn trade. In our time Woodbridge has done its
duty to the State. Dr. Edwin Lankester the well-known coroner for
Middlesex, came from Melton, close by, the High Street of which gradually
terminates in the Woodbridge thoroughfare; and the lately deceased Lord
Hatherley, one of England's most celebrated lawyers, was educated in that
district, and took his wife from the same happy land. The body of the
late Lord Hatherley, the great Whig Lord Chancellor, we were told the
other day, was interred in the family vault of Great Bearings, Suffolk.
His mother was a Woodbridge lady, a Miss Page. Lord Hatherley's father
was the far-famed Liberal Alderman, Sir Matthew Wood, for many years M.P.
for the City of London, and Queen Caroline's trusted friend and
counsellor. Lord Hatherley married, in 1830, Charlotte, the only
daughter of the late Major Edward Moore, of Great Bealings, Suffolk, but
was left a widower in 1878. He devoted much time to religious work, so
long as he had the strength to undertake it. He was the author of a work
entitled 'The Continuity of Scripture, as declared by the Testimony of
Our Lord and the Evangelists and the Apostles', which has passed through
three or four editions. He was created an Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford in 1851,
was an Hon. Student of Christ Church, Oxford, a Governor of the
Charterhouse, and a member of the Fishmongers' Company, of which his
father had at one time been Prime Warden. Major Moore himself was a
great authority on Suffolk literature and antiquities, and published more
than one book--now very scarce--on the interesting theme.

As to Dr. Lankester, all Woodbridge was scandalized when it was announced
that he was articled to a medical man. 'What, make a doctor of him!'
said the local gossips at the time. 'They had much better make a butcher
of him.' And not a little were the good people astonished when he came
to town, and was signally successful as a medical lecturer, and as an
advocate of the sanitary principles which in our day have come to be
recognised as essential to the welfare of the State. Dr. Lankester was
in great request as a writer on medical subjects in a popular manner, and
did undoubtedly much good in his day. A good many gentee