[120] It is sometimes forgotten that a Prebend is a thing; a Prebendary a
    person.

[121] Compare his letter to Lady Holland, May 14, 1835;—­“Liberals of the
    eleventh hour abound! and there are some of the first hour, of whose
    work in the toil and heat of the day I have no recollection!”

[122] John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), M.P. and Tory pamphleteer.

[123] Samuel Lee (1783-1852).

[124] Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874).

[125] On the 13th of January 1838, he wrote to the Bishop of London—­“I
    think the best reason for destroying the Cathedrals is the abominable
    trash and nonsense they have all published since the beginning of this
    dispute.”

[126] Lord John Russell.

[127] Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854), Judge and Dramatist.

[128] James Henry Monk (1784-1856).

[129] William FitzHardinge Berkeley (1786-1857) was created Lord Segrave of
    Berkeley Castle in 1831, and Earl FitzHardinge in 1841.

[130] “You see my younger brother, Courtenay, is turned out of office in
    India, for refusing the surety of the East India Company!  Truly the
    Smiths are a stiff-necked generation, and yet they have all got rich
    but I. Courtenay, they say, has L150,000, and he keeps only a cat!  In
    the last letter I had from him, which was in 1802, he confessed that
    his money was gathering very fast.” (S.S. 1827).

[131] (1794-1871), Banker, Historian, and Politician.

[132] William, Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848).

[133] “Have you read Sydney Smith’s Life?  There is a strange mixture in his
    character of earnest common-sense and fun.  On the whole, I think he
    will be thought more highly of in consequence of the publication of
    the Life, though it may be doubted whether his religion was not
    injured by his strong sense of the ludicrous.  I cannot forgive him for
    his anti-missionary articles in the Edinburgh Review.”—­Life of
    Archbishop Tait, vol.  I. chapter xiii.

What seems to be his later and juster judgment on missionary work is given, without date, by Lady Holland.  “Some one, speaking of Missions, ridiculed them as inefficient.  He dissented, saying, that though all was not done that was projected, or even boasted of, yet that much good resulted; and that wherever Christianity was taught, it brought with it the additional good of civilization in its train, and men became better carpenters, better cultivators, better everything.”

[134] “It is immaterial whether Mr. Shufflebottom preaches at Bungay, and
    Mr. Ringletub at Ipswich; or whether an artful vicissitude is adopted,
    and the order of insane predication reversed.”

[135] William Carey (1761-1834), Shoemaker, Orientalist, and Missionary.

[136] (1765-1832), Historian and Philosopher.