“Dr. Smith inquired after you this morning, he is much pleased with
your present of Dr. Barrow’s[127] bust to the Library.[128]...
He is angry with Mrs. Middleton for being so tardy as to Dr.
Middleton’s bust, at which, I own, I am a little offended.... All
the people here are impatient for the tryal of Mr. Byng. They say
he was surprised at the reception, tho’ he had so much reason to
expect the treatment he has found. Sir William Milner and his Lady
are here, they are people of considerable fortune in Yorkshire,
they seem very good-natured and obliging.”
[127] The Rev. Dr. Isaac Barrow, born 1630, died 1677; eminent
scholar and mathematician; preceptor of Sir Isaac Newton; Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge. The bust is by Roubilliac.
[128] The library of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Mention is made of Miss Dashwood[129] being at Tunbridge, much gone
off in looks: “Miss Dashwood dined with me yesterday. This place must
appear as melancholy to a lady who has formerly been a reigning beauty,
and is on the decline, as the coronation of an usurper to a dethroned
Prince!”
[129] The “Delia” of Hammond.
[Page heading: MR. MORRIS ROBINSON’S MARRIAGE]
During this summer Morris Robinson, Mrs. Montagu’s third brother,
married Miss Jane Greenland, daughter of John Greenland, of Lovelace,
Co. Kent, who was the eldest son of Augustine Greenland, of Belle Vue,
Kent. Her mother was Jane Weller, of Kingsgate House, Rolveden, Kent,
of a good family. Mrs. Montagu did not like the marriage, though she
finally adopted their second son, her nephew,[130] Matthew Robinson,
and made him take the name of Montagu. There never was any cordiality
between the sisters-in-law. Mrs. Morris Robinson was a violent-tempered
woman, and, despite her good birth, very illiterate, which, to a person
like her sister-in-law, was extremely annoying, the more so as Morris
was one of her favourite brothers, and extremely clever. As mentioned
before, he belonged to the Six Clerks’ office, and managed both the
legal affairs of the Duke of Montagu and Mr. Montagu.
[130] Succeeded his elder brother Morris as 4th Baron Rokeby in
1829.
Writing from Hagley[131] on August 11, Miss West gives an account of
her brave young nephew, who had been wounded, not killed, as at first
reported--
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