Early Correspondence of Lord John Russell, Vol. 1: 1805-40 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Russell, Rollo

9780428782559: Early Correspondence of Lord John Russell, Vol. 1: 1805-40 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Early Correspondence of Lord John Russell, Vol. 1: 1805-40

I was very fond of her, wrote her son in his old age. I used to call her in the morning, and from that hour during the whole of the day she showed me the utmost affection. I used to delight in reading to her Plutarch's Lives in the morning.

His childhood was passed chiefly at Stratton Park, in Hampshire, and at Oakley, in Bedford Shire, till he was nine years old. In 1801 he was sent to school at Sunbury, where his two elder brothers and other boys, whose names have become well known in political life, were pupils. It was While he was there in 1801 that his mother wrote the touching letter alluded to. He had been at school only a short time when, on October 11th, he and his brother William heard of her sudden death.

In the following year, March, 1802, his uncle Francis, fifth Duke, died by an accident.

In 1803 Fox gave testimony to his qualities in the following words To be useful, whether to the public at large, whether to his relations and nearer friends, or even to any individual of his species, was the ruling passion of his life.

The commemorative speech of Fox on this great and excellent man in the House of Commons is to my mind one of the noblest eulogies ever written. Copies of it, as printed by Ridgway, are rare.

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