Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and CommentsGuiney, Louise Imogen
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Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments
Guiney, Louise Imogen
Froude, Richard Hurrell, 1803-1836
[86] Henry Bellenden Bulteel (1800-1866), a Devonshire man,
Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Hurrell’s former
contemporary at Eton. He got into difficulties with the
Church of England and the University in 1831; after his
calling the Heads of Houses ‘dumb dogs,’ from the pulpit of
S. Mary’s, Bishop Bagot revoked his licence; he then married
a pastry-cook’s sister in the High Street, spent £4000
building the Baptist Chapel in the Commercial Road, and set
up as an independent dissenting minister. He was the
anonymous author of _The Oxford Argo_. A good deal laughed
at in his day, Bulteel had, according to evidence, the
sympathy of Hurrell Froude in his ill fortunes. ‘Froude went
about for days with a rueful countenance, and could only
say: “Poor Bulteel!”’ _Reminiscences_, Mozley, i., 228.
[87] James Yonge, M.D., F.C.P., 1794-1870, a graduate of
Exeter College, Oxford, and resident at Plymouth, where his
practice was famous in its day, all over England.
[88] Of Oriel College.
[89] Hurrell had visited Keble there early in April, and
caught a fresh cold.
[90] See p. 257.
[91] Prosperity, in _Lyra Apostolica_. Edited by H. C.
Beeching, M.A. London: Methuen [1900], p. 146.
[92] Mary Sophia Newman, the youngest of the family, died,
aged 17, on January 5, 1828.
[93] _Histoire de la Conquête de l’Angleterre par les
Normands._ Par Augustin Thierry. Paris: Santelet, 1826.
Tomes 1-4, 2de edition, 8o.
[94] A sentimental complaining fellow: the ‘dreary
prospects’ being the prospects of a single life devoted to
moral reforms.
[95] The usurper of the Portuguese crown, third son of King
John VI. The English destroyed his fleet off Cape St.
Vincent, July 5, 1833.
[96] ‘Stare’ in the _Remains_.
[97] Six weeks later, an English lady, Miss Frere, writes
home from Malta of our three tourists, ‘Archdeacon Froude,
his son, and another clergyman’ … ‘all very agreeable.’ She
laments the ill-health of Mr. Newman, but adds that ‘the
son, on whose account they are travelling, is quite well.’
_Works of the Rt. Hon. John Hookham Frere_, vol. i., Memoir,
by the Rt. Hon. Sir Bartle Frere. London: Pickering, 1874,
p. 242.
[98] Newman says, ‘It was at Rome that we began the _Lyra
Apostolica_’ (_Apologia_, 1890, p. 34); this letter
antedates the arrival at Rome by some days. Newman dates the
_Lyra_ from Froude’s choosing its motto from the _Odyssey_
on the eve of magazine publication.
[99] The Rev. C. A. Ogilvie? or Frederick Oakeley? or the
young Devonian Nutcombe Oxenham, who, like Isaac Williams,
his tutor and lifelong friend, was a Scholar of Trinity? The
associates of Mr. Williams were almost exclusively of Oriel.
[100] Froude had visited Samuel Wilberforce there, at
Brighstone.
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