When I went up to Trinity in 1842, I used to see a great deal of the princess.... [I was then] a freshman full of admiration for my College of which I used to boast. One day the old princess shewed me the picture, ... and asked if I thought it would look well in the Hall. On my saying what a boon it would be, she very graciously said "You can tell Mr Whewell that I will leave it to the College through you, and I hope you will see this picture placed in a good position." At her death I took it down to Trinity where I was still an undergraduate. The portrait of queen Mary on the other side of the dais is a Spanish copy of Antonio Moro's famous picture which hangs in Madrid. The original is said to have been given to Philip after his engagement to her; it presents her as a woman of strong character but far from beautiful. When the marriage took place, it was unkindly said by a Spanish courtier that whatever were the faults of his master, it must at least be admitted that he recognized the obligation of a gentleman to keep his word. Of other pictures in the hall those of Tennyson (1809-92) painted in 1890 by G.F. Watts, of the earl of Essex (1566-1601) painted in 1590, of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) painted in 1725 by John Vanderbank, and of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) copied from Van Somer's portrait in Gray's Inn are specially noticeable. Newton and Barrow (together with Pearson who is mentioned below) played a leading part in the intellectual life in the University towards the close of the seventeenth century, but I need not talk here about this. Barrow, who was a mathematician and divine, had a ready wit. When, previous to his admission to holy orders, he was examined on his faith, the dialogue is said to have been as follows:--Chaplain: _Quid est fides?_ Barrow: _Quod non vides._ Chaplain: _Quid est spes?_ Barrow: _Magna res._ Chaplain: _Quid est caritas?_ Barrow: _Magna raritas._ On which his questioner retired in dudgeon, and reported that there was a candidate for ordination who would only give him "rhyming answers to moral questions": but the bishop had the sense to recognize that truths can be expressed in rhyme as well as in prose, and Barrow was ordained. A very pleasing picture is that reputed to be of Byron: this looks like a Raeburn, though it is ascribed to Thomas Lawrence: its history is doubtful, but the absence of any peculiarity in the ear is _prima facie_ evidence that it is not of Byron. Another striking portrait is that of W.H. Thompson (1810-1886) painted in 1881 by Hubert von Herkomer. When Thompson saw the completed portrait of himself, he is said to have remarked, "Do I really look as if I held the world so cheap" and in a print of it in the house of one of my friends, this is inscribed on the frame. I ought also to call attention to the window portrait of Richard, duke of York (1411-60), the father of Edward IV and Richard III, which probably comes to us from King's Hall.