Hawkins, F. Vaughan, continued—

g. Sir John Vaughan, Judge; Just. C.P. (See in JUDGES.) gB. Rev. Edward Vaughan of Leicester; Calvinist theologian. gB. Peter Vaughan, Dean of Chester; Warden of Merton College, Oxford.

gB. Sir Chas. Vaughan, Envoy Extraordinary to the United States. gB. Sir Henry Vaughan, assumed the name of Halford, Ist

Bart.; the well-known physician of George III.

gN. The Rev. CHARLES J. VAUGHAN, D.D. joint senior classic of Cambridge, 1838; eminent scholar; Head Master of Harrow; Master of the Temple; has refused two bishoprics. The rigid rule I have prescribed to myself, of reckoning only those who were sole senior classics, prevents my assigning a separate paragraph to Dr. Vaughan. Kennedy, Rev. Benjamin; senior classic, 1827; for many years Head Master of Shrewsbury School; professor of Greek at Cambridge. Educated at Shrewsbury, of which school he was head boy æt. 15; obtained the Porson prize at Cambridge æt. 18, before entering the University, and the Pitt University Scholarship æt. 19.

B. CHARLES RANN KENNEDY, barrister; senior classic, 1831. B. Rev. GEORGE KENNEDY, senior classic, 1834; for many years one of the ablest of the private tutors at Cambridge. B. Rev. William Kennedy, Inspector of Schools; gained the Porson prize, 1835, but was incapacitated for competition in the classical tripos through his not having taken the previous, then essential, mathematical degree.

N. W. R. KENNEDY, son of the above; senior classic, 1868; was Newcastle scholar at Eton.

N. J. Kennedy, has not yet (1869) arrived at the period for

taking his degree. He was Newcastle scholar at Eton, and Bell University scholar at Cambridge.

F. Benjamin Rann Kennedy. It is considered that he would have been an excellent scholar if he had had advantages. Had considerable poetic talent (poem on death of Princess Charlotte, quoted by Washington Irving in his "Sketchbook"). Was Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham.

G Her maiden name was Maddox, a lady of considerable intellectual and roetic ability.

Kennedy, Rev. Benjamin, continued

g.

g.

u.

-Hall, engraver to George III.; his portrait is in the
Vernon Gallery; was a man of mark in his profession.
Her maiden name was Giles; she was the daughter of
French emigrants; had excellent abilities, that were shared
by others of her family, as follow :—

Rev. Dr. Hall, late Master of Pembroke College, Oxford;
a man of considerable classical attainments.

uS. James Burchell, Under Sheriff of Middlesex; acting Judge of the Sheriffs' Court for forty-five years; a man of eminent business capacity.

uS. William Burchell, most successful man of business; founder of important companies, as the first Electric Telegraph Company and the Metropolitan Railway.

Lushington, Edmund; senior classic, 1832; Professor at Glasgow.

GF. James Law, Bishop of Carlisle; author.

GB. The 1st Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. (See under JUDGES.)

B.

B.

B.

Henry Lushington, 4th classic of his year; Government
Secretary at Malta.

FRANKLIN LUSHINGTON, senior classic, 1846.

Charles H. Lushington, Secretary to Government in India. The four following are descended from a second marriage; they have the Lushington, but not the Law, blood.

U. Stephen Rumbold Lushington, Privy Councillor; Governor of Madras; Secretary of the Treasury.

[U.] General Sir James Lushington, K.C.B.

[U.] Charles, Madras Civil Service; Member of Council. US. Charles Hugh, Secretary to Government in India.

The branch of the Lushington family from which Sir Stephen Lushington, D.C.L., the eminent ex-Judge of the Admiralty, is descended, diverged from the one we are now considering, in the fifth ascending generation from the two senior classics. This branch also contains a considerable number of men of sterling ability, and very few others. There are fully eleven distinguished men within three grades of relationship to Sir Stephen Lushington.

Selwyn, Rev. Dr. William; senior classic, 1828; Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge.

Selwyn, Rev. Dr. William, continued—

B. The Bishop of Lichfield, formerly Bishop of New Zealand; 2d classic in 1831.

B. Sir Jasper Selwyn, Judge; Lord Justice.

b. Miss Selwyn, eminent for philanthropical labours. (Crimean War, "Home" at Birmingham.)

Sidgwick, H.; senior classic, 1859.

B. 2d classic, 1863.

B. Able scholar; senior Tutor of Merton College, Oxford. GnS., GUPS., and guPS. Dr. Benson, Head Master of Wellington College, is related, though distantly, through the paternal and maternal lines, to Mr. Sidgwick, being both second and third cousin by the first and third cousin by the second.

Wordsworth, Rev. Christopher, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln; senior classic, 1830. See under POETS for his relations, viz. :

U. The Poet.

F.

The Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

2 B. Excellent scholars; one, the Bishop of Dunkeld.

CHAPTER XVII.

OARSMEN.

I PROPOSE to supplement what I have written about brain by two short chapters on muscle. No one doubts that muscle is hereditary in horses and dogs, but humankind are so blind to facts and so governed by preconceptions, that I have heard it frequently asserted that muscle is not hereditary in men. Oarsmen and wrestlers have maintained that their heroes spring up capriciously, so I have thought it advisable to make inquiries into the matter. The results I have obtained will beat down another place of refuge for those who insist that each man is an independent creation, and not a mere function, physically, morally, and intellectually, of ancestral qualities and external influences.

In respect to Oarsmen, let me assure the reader that they are no insignificant fraction of the community,—no mere waifs and strays from those who follow more civilized Fursuits. A perfect passion for rowing pervades large classes. At Newcastle, when a great race takes place, all business is at a standstill, factories are closed, shops are shut, and offices deserted. The number of men who fall within the attraction of the career is very great; and there can be no doubt that a large proportion of those among them who are qualified to succeed brilliantly, obey the attraction and pursue it.

For the information in this and the following chapters, I am entirely indebted to the kind inquiries made for me

by Mr. Robert Spence Watson of Newcastle, whose local knowledge is very considerable, and whose sympathies with athletic amusements are strong. Mr. Watson put himself irto continual communication with one of the highest, I believe by far the highest, authority on boating matters, a person who had reported nearly every boating race to the newspapers for the last quarter of a century.

The list in the Appendix to this chapter includes the names of nearly all the rowing men of note who have figured upon the Tyne during the past six-and-twenty years. It also includes some of the rowers on the Thames, but the information about these is not so certain. The names are not picked and chosen, but the best men have been taken of whom any certain knowledge could be obtained.

It is not easy to classify the rowers, especially as many of the men have rarely, if ever, pulled in skiff matches, but formed part of crews in pair-oared, four-oared, or six-oared matches. Their performances have, however, been carefully examined and criticised by Mr. Watson and his assessor, who have divided them into four classes.

I have marked the names of the lowest with brackets [], and have attached to them the phrase "moderately good." These are men who have either disappointed expectations founded on early promise, or have not rowed often enough to show of what feats they are really capable. No complete failure is included. Few amateurs can cope with men of this class, notwithstanding the mediocrity of their abilities when judged by a professional standard.

The next ascending grade is also distinguished by brackets [], but no qualifying expression is added to their names. They consist of the steady reliable men who form good racing crews.

The two superior grades contain the men whose names re printed without brackets-whom, in short, I treat as