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Acri, S-15. SCI-IOOL DAYS—FIRST TUTORS—SCHOOL-FELLOWS XXX1

peditions to the West Highlands, the Lakes of Cumberland, and

elsewhere. Major Yule chose his boys to have every reasonable

indulgence and advantage, and when the British Association, in

1834, held its first Edinburgh meeting, Henry received a mem-

ber's ticket. So, too, when the passing of the Reform Bill was

celebrated in the same year by a great banquet, at which Lord

Grey and other prominent politicians were present, Henry was

sent to the dinner, probably the youngest guest there.'4

At this time the intention was that Henry should go to

Cambridge (where his name was, indeed, entered), and after

taking his degree study for the Bar. With this view he was, in

1833, sent to Waith, near Ripon, to be coached by the Rev.

H. P. Hamilton, author of a well-known treatise, On Conic

Sections, and afterwards Dean of Salisbury. At his tutor's

hospitable rectory Yule met many notabilities of the day. One

of them was Professor Sedgwick.

There was rumoured at this time the discovery of the first

known (?) fossil monkey, but its tail was missing. " Depend

upon it, Daniel O'Conell's got hold of it ! " said ` Adam ' briskly.15

Yule was very happy with Mr. Hamilton and his kind wife, but

on his tutor's removal to Cambridge other arrangements became

necessary, and in 183 5 he was transferred to the care of the Rev.

James Challis, rector of Papworth St. Everard, a place which

had little to recommend it except a dulness which made

reading almost a necessity." 16 Mr. Challis had at this time two

other resident pupils, who both, in most diverse ways, attained

distinction in the Church. These were John Mason Neale, the

future eminent ecclesiologist and founder of the devoted Angli-

can Sisterhood of St. Margaret, and Harvey Goodwin, long

afterwards the studious and large-minded Bishop of Carlisle.

With the latter, Yule remained on terms of cordial friendship to

the end of his life. Looking back through more than fifty years

to these boyish days, Bishop Goodwin wrote that Yule then

" showed much more liking for Greek plays and for German

than for mathematics, though he had considerable geometrical

$ ~ 14 This was the famous " Grey Dinner," of which The Shepherd made grim fun

C& in the Nodes.

15 Probably the specimen from South America, of which an account was published in 1833.

~R,G 16 Rawnsley, Memoir of Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle.

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