HENRY STEDMAN POLEHAMPTON.

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HENRY STEDMAN POLEHAMPTON, mentioned above as a 'blue' and an energetic captain, has been called 'the hero chaplain of Lucknow.' He entered the College, like others of his family, with a Wightwick kin-scholarship, bringing with him from Eton a rowing and cricketing reputation. The Polehamptons had a passion for rescuing the capsized, and he was awarded in 1845 the Humane Society's medal ob civem servatum for saving a drowning man in Iffley Lasher, two days after the melancholy fate of Messrs. Gaisford and Phillimore at Sandford. Fellow 1845-56. After ordination he was presented by the College to St. Aldate's, but, finding that the benefice would void his fellowship, he accepted the assistant-curacy of St. Chad's, Shrewsbury. His assiduity during the cholera visitation of 1849 endeared him to his flock. In 1855, being offered a Bengal chaplaincy, he married Miss Emily Alnatt. Bringing his bride to Oxford to take farewell of the familiar scenes, he writes home of the University scratch Fours, in which he had 'a last pull for auld lang syne,' two other 'blues' rowing in the same boat, and won a pint pewter, which he took to India to remind him of College days. Less than two years later he found an Indian grave, at Lawrence's feet, by the banks of the Gumti. The first mutterings of the awful impending storm were beginning when Polehampton went out, his station being Lucknow. His diary and letters (studded with affectionate reminiscences of School and College) give a graphic picture of the outbreak of the Mutiny and of its horror. On the ninth day of the Siege, during which he was occupied in ministering to the wounded and the cholera and small-pox patients, in cheering the combatants, consoling the bereaved, encouraging the tender women and children, and other corporal and spiritual works of mercy, he was shot through the body. He believed himself to be recovering, and two days before his death was performing his sacred function for his fellow-sufferers in hospital, but on the twelfth day from that on which he received his wound he died, July 20, 1857-not less constant in death, though finding a less cruel end, than a fellowchaplain, who, falling wounded, was dragged into church and there crucified, being nailed to his own pulpit, which was then set on fire. Mr. Polehampton's young widow was twice struck by a bullet, but not seriously. An officer lying wounded in the same hospital tells us that, while he was dying, his cheerfulness and composure were the support and comfort of all the sick and dying round him. His last words were 'Peace, now and for ever.' Brigadier Inglis, in his despatch to the Government, mentions the honoured names of

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Birch, of Polehampton, of Barbor, and of Gall,' who had been the tender and solicitous nurses of the wounded and the dying.' In reply, the Governor-General in Council 'cannot forgo the pleasure of doing justice' to these four names. His lordship also says: 'The Governor-General in Council has read with great satisfaction the testimony borne by Brigadier Inglis to the sedulous attention given to the spiritual comforts of his comrades by the Rev. Mr. Polehampton and the Rev. Mr. Harris. The first, unhappily, has not survived his labours.' This Mr. Harris rowed in the Brasenose boat which bumped the Pembroke Eight in which Polehampton rowed. A simple Memoir of their brother was published in 1885 by the Rev. Edward and the Rev. Thomas S. Polehampton, Fellows of the College, aided by Dr. Rolleston.

In the great story of Missionary labour, the name of HENRY DE WINT BURRUP, who rowed bow in the Eight in 1850, has an honoured place. He accompanied Bishop Mackenzie to Capetown in 1860, and shared his perils and toils. Livingstone ascribed the fever which ended the Bishop's life to the incautiousness induced by Burrup's 'wonderful feat' of the ascent of the Shirè river without mishap. The last moments of Mackenzie were soothed by this devoted comrade, who himself dug the Bishop's grave under a large tree, and there laid his remains. A fortnight later, on February 23, 1862, Burrup himself sank and died. He lies buried near Magomero.

With Polehampton and Burrup may be named RICHARD NEWMAN TOWNSEND, mentioned above as a 'blue' in 1856, who died of typhus in the performance of his duty as a surgeon-major, Cork City Artillery, in March, 1877. The Medical Press, after describing the labours of this good physician, said: 'Every shop in Queenstown put up a sign of mourning, and all the ships in the harbour had their flag half-mast high. His funeral was attended by upwards of two thousand people of all classes.'

The foregoing record illustrates the way in which a small College passes through periods of glory and of depression. From 1829 to 1883 fourteen Pembroke men obtained the rowing Blue. Only five Colleges show a larger number. Three of the fourteen were Presidents of the O. U. B. C.; three rowed stroke for the University; nine entered into Holy Orders.

The Cricket and other athletic records in my possession are but fragmentary. The names of four Blues are of note among cricketers— Sir JOHN SCOTT', K.C.M.G., now Judicial Adviser to H.H. the Khedive

1 Vide supra, p. 478.

CRICKET; SPORTS; UNION SOCIETY.

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(Steward of Junior Common Room 1862), WILLIAM HARRY PATTERSON (matr. 1878), his brother JOHN IRVIN PATTERSON (B.A. 1882), and EDWARD THORNHILL BECKETT SIMPSON (matr. 1886). In recent years EDWARD FOORD-KELCEY, ARTHUR EDWARD NEWTON, and CHARLES LUSHINGTON HICKLEY have upheld the honour of the College in the cricket field.

In the Inter-University Sports HENRY WILLIAM RUSSELL DOMVILE won the Weight-putting for Oxford in 1871 and in 1872. In 1885 EDGAR ROGERS HOLLAND was victorious in the One Mile race, and in 1891 PERCY ROBERT LLOYD' in the Quarter-Mile. JOHN LASCELLES in 1868, LEWIS STROUD in 1888, and GEORGE ARTHUR HEGINBOTTOM in 1890 won the University Challenge Cue. Mr. STROUD is a well-known bicycling champion. ARTHUR GLYNDWR FOULKES has won several Challenge Cups with the rifle; CHARLES JOHN WINSER and JOHN WILLIAM WARD have also represented the skill of the University Rifle Corps.

The Union Society has had for President-RICHARD DURNFORD, afterwards Bishop of Chichester; DRUMMOND PERCY CHASE, now Principal of St. Mary Hall (1842); JOHN MITCHINSON (1857), afterwards Bishop of Barbados; and ARTHUR SLOMAN (1875), now Head-master of Birkenhead School. The following have acted as Librarian-JOHN COKE FOWLER (1837), JOHN MITCHINSON (1856-7); EDWARD MOORE, now Principal of St. Edmund Hall (1858-9). As Secretary-HENRY MOWLD ROBINSON (1859); HENRY CHarles Wright (1875); FRANCIS SCOTT WEBSTER (1880).

Pembroke was one of the earliest Colleges to institute College Sports or 'Grinds,' viz. in 1856.

As this sheet passes through the press, the death is announced of a regarded Lincoln prebendary, JAMES MICHAELMAS BARRETT, thirty years Vicar of St. Peter's in Eastgate, a philologist and Hebraist. At Pembroke, which he entered in 1847, he was noted as an athlete, both on the river (winning the Pairs) and on the running-path. He died March 29, 1897.

Son of Mr. Edward Lloyd, the founder and proprietor of Lloyd's Weekly and of the Daily Chronicle.

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

MINUTES.

THE Minutes of Conventions begin in 1772. I put down here some of the more noticeable entries not recorded elsewhere.

1772. Caution fixed as follows:-Gentlemen Commoners £24, Commoners £12, Scholars £10, Battlers £6, Servitors £4.

'Ordered that for the future every Person who shall without Leave absent Himself from the Sacrament shall contribute to the Relief of the Poor in the following Proportion: each Gentleman Commoner Five Shillings; Commoners, Scholars and Batchelors of Arts two shillings and sixpence; Servitors one shilling. Which sums are to be put on their names in the Buttery Book, and be allow'd at the end of each Quarter to the Bursar for charitable Purposes-Clergymen of all Ranks who serve churches are excused.'

Sir John Peshall, the antiquarian editor of Anthony à Wood, claimed Founder's kin to Tesdale for his son, but the pedigree put in was disallowed.

A Hebrew Lecturer was appointed, and a senior and a junior Moderator.

'Ordered in Convention that every Fellow upon his admission deposit three guineas for Plate-money and every Scholar fifteen shillings.'

1774. 'Agreed that for the future one Gaudy only (at which every member of the College shall stand to 2s.) should be substituted in the room of the seven which it has been hitherto the custom of the College to observe in the course of the year, and that the day on which such Gaudy is to be kept shall be the 29th day of June '.'

1776. The word 'scout' appears in the Minutes.

1777. The College roof and parapet wall were repaired. 1789. Gentlemen-Commoners' Plate Money to be £10.

£100 was advanced to the Bodleian Library, to bear no interest.

1 The day of the Incorporation of the College in 1624. But the present Gaudy is on the first Thursday in November. See p. 334.

It was repaid in 1791. The French Revolution was strewing Europe with the wreck of precious libraries, and a unique opportunity presented itself for the purchase of books. Three other Colleges lent sums (Gutch, ii. 949).

1790, Feb. 22. Twenty guineas were unanimously voted 'towards raising a monument in Westminster Abbey to the Memory of the late Dr. Samuel Johnson.' This was erected finally in St. Paul's, the epitaph being written by Dr. Parr, the 'Whig Johnson.' The colossal figure by Bacon cost 1,100 guineas, easily raised by the exertions of the Literary Club.

1792, Nov. 3. £20 voted for relieving the French refugee clergy'

Nov. 20. £147 18s. 7d. voted for repairs of the Chapel.

1794, June 3. Forty guineas voted 'from the College Bag, as a subscription towards raising Troops for the internal defence of the kingdom.'

1795. A fee of 10s. to be required for the use of the Library of every Commoner and Scholar, and 20s. of every Gentleman Commoner at the time of admission. (Vide infra, p. 502, under the year 1883).

1796. Caution in future to be, Commoners £15, Scholars £12, Independent Masters and others £4.

1797, June 10. Agreed to pave from Christ Church before the College, and likewise the whole of Beef Lane, according to Survey,' the College to advance the money to the Commissioners.

1798, Feb. 13. 'Whereas in the present state of publick affairs many corporate Bodies have offered voluntary contributions for the assistance of Government, we, the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Pembroke College have ordered that the Sum of one Hundred Pounds be paid into the Bank as the voluntary Contribution of the College towards raising the Supplies granted by an Act of the present Session of Parliament entitled "An Act for granting to his Majesty an Aid and Contribution for the Prosecution of the war.'

1799. In future, without having any Retrospect, the third of College Rooms shall never in any Case exceed the Sum of £25.'

1802. His Grace the Duke of Portland, as Visitor, was appealed 1 Two thousand copies of the Vulgate New Testament were printed at the Clarendon Press in 1796, at the charges of the University, 'in usum Cleri Gallicani in Anglia exulantis.' 'The University has sent its copies to the venerable Bishop of St. Pol de Leon for distribution, accompanied by a letter, analogous to the generous sentiments which dictate this honourable mark of esteem for the French clergy, who are fully sensible of the value of the gift.' Gent. Mag. vol. lxvi. p. 961. In 1792 the University had sent nearly £1200 for the support of the refugee priests. 2 See p. 413.