Personalia; Intimate Recollections of Famous Men, Political, Literary, Artistic, Social, Various
Personalia; Intimate Recollections of Famous Men, Political, Literary, Artistic, Social, Various
Julian Osgood Field
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The father of an old gentleman with whom I was acquainted had given Lord Lyndhurst, then merely the unknown son of a not too prosperous artist, his first brief, and, whether in or out of ofl&ce, the Chancellor never forgot it. He befriended the family in every way open to him, and after one of them had proved a hopeless failure in every other capacity, rather than let him " go under" he made him one of his private secretaries. ''Si sic omnes ! " Another ex-chancellor of exceeding charm, though ...of far inferior abilities, was the first Lord Chelmsford. I once had the good fortune to sit opposite him at a dinner party, and was greatly struck by his courtly manner 114 Lawyers and sparkling talk, which were enhanced by unusually handsome features, though he was then a good deal nearer eighty than seventy. One fact that he mentioned concerning him- self astonished me not a little. The talk happening to turn on naval subjects, he quietly remarked: ** I am afraid I have for- gotten the little I once knew on such matters, but I began life in the navy, and was a mid- shipman in the Copenhagen expedition of 1807.'* Lady Chelmsford was also at the dinner, an amiable-looking old lady, whom it was difficult to credit with the affront on Mrs.
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