born on the 20th February in 1824 and died 24th May 1895. Her father was a man of high cultivation and singular moral worth; the subordination of private interests to considerations of conscience was the habit of his life. During his children's early years he maintained his household by receiving into it a succession of young men, whom he prepared for college. Among these pupils some in after days attained distinction, and, in the cases of Lord Canning and the late Lord Granville, celebrity.[1] He was of a quiet, independent character, and firm in the sense and practice of duty, though too modest and retiring for his merits to be widely known. In this respect his youngest daughter greatly resembled him. She was, moreover, the sister of one whose remains, under the title of "Emily Shore's Journal," have in the last few years raised a sympathetic interest in many readers, and some of whose remarkable qualities were shared by her we now write of. The readers of Emily's Journal will be aware in what a healthy
- ↑ Sir John Kaye, in his "History of the Indian Mutiny," when sketching Lord Canning's early life, justly characterises his tutor as "that ripe scholar and worthy Christian gentleman."
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