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of the finest races ever witnessed. EDWARD HENRY BAYLY rowed No. 3 in the winning Trial Eight.

1873. Mr. R. S. MITCHISON rowed No. 5 in the University Eight. Slidingseats were used for the first time. HENRY MCDOUGALL COURTNEY rowed bow in the winning Trial Eight. The College Eight lost a place.

1874. The Eight went Head of the River, but finished third. ARTHUR MOORE MITCHISON1 and Mr. COURTNEY rowed No. 4 and No. 7 in the winning and losing Trial Eights respectively.

1875. Pembroke was represented in the University Eight by Mr. COURTNEY and Mr. A. M. MITCHISON. JAMES COLAM SALTER2 rowed in the Trial Eights.

1876. Messrs. COURTNEY and MITCHISON again rowed at Putney. JOHN WILLIAM WATNEY BOOTH3 rowed No. 5 in the winning Trial Eight. 1877. The Torpid, starting third, went Head of the River, almost 'Cherwellizing' the other boats. The Eight, considered to be quite the fastest boat on the river, went up one place to second, and, but for the illness of one of the crew, would no doubt have ended Head like the Torpid. Qui color est puniceae flore prior rosae?' Messrs. BOOTH and HERBERT BURROWS SOUTHWELL rowed in the losing and winning Trial Eights respectively. GEORGE MURTON steered the winning boat. 1878. The Torpid remained Head of the River. Mr. SOUTHWELL rowed No. 3 in the magnificent University Eight which beat Cambridge by twelve lengths. He rowed this year in the losing Trial Eight.

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1879. Mr. SOUTHWELL rowed No. 4 in the Oxford boat. He also stroked one of the Trial Eights, but in the end the frost prevented any race. The Torpid remained Head.

1880. Mr. SOUTHWELL again rowed No. 4 in the University Eight. The Torpid and Eight went down five places each.

1881. The Eight went down five more places.

1882. The Eight went up five places.

1886. The Torpid for the first time entered the Second Division. FREDERICK WYKEHAM CHANCELLOR steered the winning Trial Eight. 1888. ARTHUR VILLIERS BLAKEMORE rowed No. 2 in the winning Trial Eight.

1889. ARTHUR KERSHAW ELWORTHY and GEORGE MERVYN LAWSON presented to the Club a pair of Silver Goblets to be competed for in Coxswainless canvas pairs.

1891. The Eight made five bumps in four nights, and nearly made seven. Pembroke put on an Eight at Henley for the Ladies' Plate and Thames Cup, but it was unsuccessful. The College also reappeared in the University Fours. NEVILL KENDAL stroked, and ARTHUR BELL MORLAND steered, the winning Trial Eight.

Of the Inner Temple 1879. The Mitchison brothers were both Eton oars. Of an earlier date was another aquatic Etonian, NAUNTON LEMUEL SHULDHAM (matr. 1850, Fellow of Magdalen College 1865-7), afterwards tutor to H.R.H. Prince Leopold and Vicar of Scawby. Ob. 1874.

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2 Mathematical Master at Cheltenham.

Vicar of South Darley, Derbyshire, 1882.

• Denyer and Johnson Scholar. Now Principal of Lichfield Theological College.

HENRY STEDMAN POLEHAMPTON.

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HENRY STEDMAN POLEHAMPTON, mentioned above as a 'blue' and an energetic captain, has been called 'the hero chaplain of Lucknow.' He entered the College, like others of his family, with a Wightwick kin-scholarship, bringing with him from Eton a rowing and cricketing reputation. The Polehamptons had a passion for rescuing the capsized, and he was awarded in 1845 the Humane Society's medal ob civem servatum for saving a drowning man in Iffley Lasher, two days after the melancholy fate of Messrs. Gaisford and Phillimore at Sandford. Fellow 1845-56. After ordination he was presented by the College to St. Aldate's, but, finding that the benefice would void his fellowship, he accepted the assistant-curacy of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury. His assiduity during the cholera visitation of 1849 endeared him to his flock. In 1855, being offered a Bengal chaplaincy, he married Miss Emily Alnatt. Bringing his bride to Oxford to take farewell of the familiar scenes, he writes home of the University scratch Fours, in which he had 'a last pull for auld lang syne,' two other 'blues' rowing in the same boat, and won a pint pewter, which he took to India to remind him of College days. Less than two years later he found an Indian grave, at Lawrence's feet, by the banks of the Gumti. The first mutterings of the awful impending storm were beginning when Polehampton went out, his station being Lucknow. His diary and letters (studded with affectionate reminiscences of School and College) give a graphic picture of the outbreak of the Mutiny and of its horror. On the ninth day of the Siege, during which he was occupied in ministering to the wounded and the cholera and small-pox patients, in cheering the combatants, consoling the bereaved, encouraging the tender women and children, and other corporal and spiritual works of mercy, he was shot through the body. He believed himself to be recovering, and two days before his death was performing his sacred function for his fellow-sufferers in hospital, but on the twelfth day from that on which he received his wound he died, July 20, 1857-not less constant in death, though finding a less cruel end, than a fellowchaplain, who, falling wounded, was dragged into church and there crucified, being nailed to his own pulpit, which was then set on fire. Mr. Polehampton's young widow was twice struck by a bullet, but not seriously. An officer lying wounded in the same hospital tells us that, while he was dying, his cheerfulness and composure were the support and comfort of all the sick and dying round him. His last words were 'Peace, now and for ever.' Brigadier Inglis, in his despatch to the Government, mentions the honoured names of

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Birch, of Polehampton, of Barbor, and of Gall,' who had been the tender and solicitous nurses of the wounded and the dying.' In reply, the Governor-General in Council 'cannot forgo the pleasure of doing justice' to these four names. His lordship also says: 'The Governor-General in Council has read with great satisfaction the testimony borne by Brigadier Inglis to the sedulous attention given to the spiritual comforts of his comrades by the Rev. Mr. Polehampton and the Rev. Mr. Harris. The first, unhappily, has not survived his labours.' This Mr. Harris rowed in the Brasenose boat which bumped the Pembroke Eight in which Polehampton rowed. A simple Memoir of their brother was published in 1885 by the Rev. Edward and the Rev. Thomas S. Polehampton, Fellows of the College, aided by Dr. Rolleston.

In the great story of Missionary labour, the name of HENRY DE WINT BURRUP, who rowed bow in the Eight in 1850, has an honoured place. He accompanied Bishop Mackenzie to Capetown in 1860, and shared his perils and toils. Livingstone ascribed the fever which ended the Bishop's life to the incautiousness induced by Burrup's 'wonderful feat' of the ascent of the Shirè river without mishap. The last moments of Mackenzie were soothed by this devoted comrade, who himself dug the Bishop's grave under a large tree, and there laid his remains. A fortnight later, on February 23, 1862, Burrup himself sank and died. He lies buried near Magomero.

With Polehampton and Burrup may be named RICHARD NEWMAN TOWNSEND, mentioned above as a 'blue' in 1856, who died of typhus in the performance of his duty as a surgeon-major, Cork City Artillery, in March, 1877. The Medical Press, after describing the labours of this good physician, said: 'Every shop in Queenstown put up a sign of mourning, and all the ships in the harbour had their flag half-mast high. His funeral was attended by upwards of two thousand people of all classes.'

The foregoing record illustrates the way in which a small College passes through periods of glory and of depression. From 1829 to 1883 fourteen Pembroke men obtained the rowing Blue. Only five Colleges show a larger number. Three of the fourteen were Presidents of the O. U. B. C.; three rowed stroke for the University; nine entered into Holy Orders.

The Cricket and other athletic records in my possession are but fragmentary. The names of four Blues are of note among cricketers— Sir JOHN SCOTT', K.C.M.G., now Judicial Adviser to H.H. the Khedive

▲ Vide supra, p. 478.

CRICKET; SPORTS; UNION SOCIETY.

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(Steward of Junior Common Room 1862), WILLIAM HARRY PATTERSON (matr. 1878), his brother JOHN IRVIN PATTERSON (B.A. 1882), and EDWARD THORNHILL BECKETT SIMPSON (matr. 1886). In recent years EDWARD FOORD-KELCEY, ARTHUR EDWARD NEWTON, and CHARLES LUSHINGTON HICKLEY have upheld the honour of the College in the cricket field.

In the Inter-University Sports HENRY WILLIAM RUSSELL DOMVILE won the Weight-putting for Oxford in 1871 and in 1872. In 1885 EDGAR ROGERS HOLLAND was victorious in the One Mile race, and in 1891 PERCY ROBERT LLOYD1 in the Quarter-Mile. JOHN LASCELLES in 1868, LEWIS STROUD in 1888, and GEORGE ARTHUR HEGINBOTTOM in 1890 won the University Challenge Cue. Mr. STROUD is a well-known bicycling champion. ARTHUR GLYNDWR FOULKES has won several Challenge Cups with the rifle; CHARLES JOHN WINSER and JOHN WILLIAM WARD have also represented the skill of the University Rifle Corps.

The Union Society has had for President-RICHARD DUrnford, afterwards Bishop of Chichester; DRUMMOND PERCY CHASE, now Principal of St. Mary Hall (1842); JOHN MITCHINSON (1857), afterwards Bishop of Barbados; and ARTHUR SLOMAN (1875), now Head-master of Birkenhead School. The following have acted as Librarian-JOHN COKE FOWLER (1837), JOHN MITCHINSON (1856-7); EDWARD MOORE, now Principal of St. Edmund Hall (1858-9). As Secretary-HENRY MOWLD ROBINSON (1859); HENRY CHARLES WRIGHT (1875); FRANCIS SCOTT WEBSTER (1880).

Pembroke was one of the earliest Colleges to institute College Sports or 'Grinds,' viz. in 1856.

As this sheet passes through the press, the death is announced of a regarded Lincoln prebendary, JAMES MICHAELMAS BARRETT, thirty years Vicar of St. Peter's in Eastgate, a philologist and Hebraist. At Pembroke, which he entered in 1847, he was noted as an athlete, both on the river (winning the Pairs) and on the running-path. He died March 29, 1897.

Son of Mr. Edward Lloyd, the founder and proprietor of Lloyd's Weekly and of the Daily Chronicle.

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

MINUTES.

THE Minutes of Conventions begin in 1772. I put down here some of the more noticeable entries not recorded elsewhere.

1772. Caution fixed as follows:-Gentlemen Commoners £24, Commoners £12, Scholars £10, Battlers £6, Servitors £4.

'Ordered that for the future every Person who shall without Leave absent Himself from the Sacrament shall contribute to the Relief of the Poor in the following Proportion: each Gentleman Commoner Five Shillings; Commoners, Scholars and Batchelors of Arts two shillings and sixpence; Servitors one shilling. Which sums are to be put on their names in the Buttery Book, and be allow'd at the end of each Quarter to the Bursar for charitable Purposes-Clergymen of all Ranks who serve churches are excused.'

Sir John Peshall, the antiquarian editor of Anthony à Wood, claimed Founder's kin to Tesdale for his son, but the pedigree put in was disallowed.

A Hebrew Lecturer was appointed, and a senior and a junior Moderator.

'Ordered in Convention that every Fellow upon his admission deposit three guineas for Plate-money and every Scholar fifteen shillings.'

1774. Agreed that for the future one Gaudy only (at which every member of the College shall stand to 2s.) should be substituted in the room of the seven which it has been hitherto the custom of the College to observe in the course of the year, and that the day on which such Gaudy is to be kept shall be the 29th day of June '.'

1776. The word 'scout' appears in the Minutes.

1777. The College roof and parapet wall were repaired. 1789. Gentlemen-Commoners' Plate Money to be £10.

£100 was advanced to the Bodleian Library, to bear no interest.

1 The day of the Incorporation of the College in 1624. But the present Gaudy is on the first Thursday in November. See p. 334.