l effect upon his character, and
made him tranquil about great things, though he was so nervous
about little things.'

"He was called to the bar in Trinity Term, 1850, and became a
member of the Midland Circuit in the summer. Immediately
afterwards he joined his family in a tour on the Continent. They
had spent the early part of the autumn at Rome, and were
returning northwards, when he was attacked by a sudden and
severe illness, affecting the vital powers, and accompanied by
enfeebled circulation and general prostration of strength. He
was able, with difficulty, to reach Siena, where he sank rapidly
through exhaustion, and expired on Friday, October 25. It is to
be hoped that he did not experience any great or active
suffering. He was conscious nearly to the last, and met his
early death (of which his presentiments, for several years, had
been frequent and very singular) with calmness and fortitude.
There is reason to apprehend, from medical examination, that his
life would not have been of very long duration, even had this
unhappy illness not occurred. But for some years past his health
had been apparently much improved; and, secured as it seemed to
be by his unintermitted temperance, and by a carefulness in
regimen which his early feebleness of constitution had rendered
habitual, those to whom he was nearest and dearest had, in great
measure, ceased to regard him with anxiety. His remains were
brought to England, and he was interred, on December 23d, in
Clevedon Church, Somersetshire, by the side of his brother, his
sister, and his mother.

"For continuous and sustained thought he had an extraordinary
capacity, the bias of his mind being decidedly towards
analytical processes; a characteristic which was illustrated at
Cambridge by his uniform partiality for analysis, and
comparative distaste for the geometrical method, in his
mathematical studies. His early proneness to dwell upon the more
recondite departments of each science and branch of inquiry has
been alluded to above. It is not to be inferred that, as a
consequence of this tendency, he blinded himself, at any period
of his life, to the necessity and the duty of practical
exertion. He was always eager to act as well as speculate; and,
in this respect, his character preserved an unbroken consistency
and