OF SIR DANIEL GOOCH BARONET WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE BY SIR THEODORE MARTIN, K.C.B. LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER, & CO. LTD PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARING CROSS ROAD 1892 ま ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAIT-A.D. 1888. PORTRAIT-A.D. 1845. THE "GREAT EASTERN" STEAMSHIP (IN THE GRIDIRON AT MILFORD) Frontispiece. To face page 33. To face page 72. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. SIR DANIEL GOOCH left voluminous diaries; and it was his wish that extracts from these, either illustrative of his career, or bearing upon the works of national importance with which he was connected, should be made public. By industry, steady perseverance, and the influence of a character which inspired confidence in all with whom he was brought into contact, he had become, like Horace, "ex humili potens," and, like Horace, he was justifiably proud of the fact. He had many friends, who, he naturally thought, might feel an interest in the story of his life; but perhaps his strongest reason for desiring to tell it was, that it might operate as a guiding light and incentive to the many who live by labour, to thousands of whom he was personally known, and the welfare of whose class was always present to his thoughts as an object to be steadily pursued. From his boyhood, happy in the training of a home in which parental discipline was tempered by affection, and "pure religion teaching household laws " prevailed, |