ountry-gentleman, magistrate, antiquary,
clergyman, and poet.[21] Such names are enough to recall a type which
has not quite vanished, and which has gathered a new charm in more
stirring and fretful times. These most excellent people, however, were
not likely to be prominent in movements destined to break up the placid
environment of their lives nor, in truth, to be sources of any great
intellectual stir.
NOTES:
[19] The list, checked from other sources of information, is as
follows:--Manners Sutton, archbishop of Canterbury, was grandson of the
third duke of Rutland; Edward Vernon, archbishop of York, was son of the
first Lord Vernon and cousin of the third Lord Harcourt, whose estates
he inherited; Shute Barrington, bishop of Durham, was son of the first
and brother of the second Viscount Barrington; Brownlow North, bishop of
Winchester, was uncle to the earl of Guildford; James Cornwallis, bishop
of Lichfield, was uncle to the second marquis, whose peerage he
inherited; George Pelham, bishop of Exeter, was brother of the earl of
Chichester; Henry Bathurst, bishop of Norwich, was nephew of the first
earl; George Henry Law, bishop of Chester, was brother of the first Lord
Ellenborough; Edward Legge, bishop of Oxford, was son of the second earl
of Dartmouth; Henry Ryder, bishop of Gloucester, was brother to the earl
of Harrowby; George Murray, bishop of Sodor and Man, was nephew-in-law
to the duke of Athol and brother-in-law to the earl of Kinnoul. Of the
fourteen tutors, etc., mentioned above, William Howley, bishop of
London, had been tutor to the prince of Orange at Oxford; George
Pretyman Tomline, bishop of Lincoln, had been Pitt's tutor at Cambridge;
Richard Beadon, bishop of Bath and Wells, had been tutor to the duke of
Gloucester at Cambridge; Folliott Cornewall, bishop of Worcester, had
been made chaplain to the House of Commons by the influence of his
cousin, the Speaker; John Buckner, bishop of Chichester, had been tutor
to the duke of Richmond; Henry William Majendie, bishop of Bangor, was
the son of Queen Charlotte's English master, and had been tutor to
William IV.; George Isaac Huntingford, bishop of Hereford, had been
tutor to Addington, prime minister; Thomas Burgess, bishop of St.
David's, was a personal friend of Addington; John Fisher, bishop of
Salisbury, had been tutor to the duke of Kent; John Luxmoore, bishop of
St. Asaph, had been tutor to the duke of Buccleugh; Samuel Goodenough,
bishop of C
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