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194 History of the Society of Dilettanti
less., as will be seen, they were not idle. Socially,
they did not cease to flourish; and their ranks
continued, as of old, to be recruited from every
section of English cultivated society. They were
also opened for the first time to distinguished
members of the foreign diplomatic body, of whom
the earliest representative was Massimo d'Azeglio,
elected in i8<?r.
sir c.t. In 18 6 3 the election of Mr. C. T. Newton, already
Newton, since 18 /4 a valued correspondent of the Society,
S£?'ht gave new strength to the learned element in its ranks,
&c. ' and at the same time knitted closer the ties by which
the Dilettanti had long been connected with the
British Museum. For nearly thirty years, until
the complete breakdown of his health, Mr. (after-
wards Sir Charles) Newton filled at the meetings and
in the business of the Society the place naturally due
to his position and attainments. To the founda-
tions laid at Shrewsbury and Christchurch he had
added a unique experience of life and exploration
in the Levant j and now, since his appointment
as Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities
in the British Museum, stood as the acknowledged
head of the practical archaeologists, epigraphers,
and antiquarian excavators of Europe. Distinguished
alike as a scholar and a man of the world, and
in looks resembling some rather weather-worn
antique Jupiter from among his own marbles, his
demeanour to strangers was marked by a touch
of suspicious caution and reserve which caused
him sometimes to be misunderstood; but to his
friends no man bore a warmer heart, and in con-
genial society few had a greater charm, derived
alike from scholarly breeding and a ripe and
humorous experience of men and things. In i&6y
less., as will be seen, they were not idle. Socially,
they did not cease to flourish; and their ranks
continued, as of old, to be recruited from every
section of English cultivated society. They were
also opened for the first time to distinguished
members of the foreign diplomatic body, of whom
the earliest representative was Massimo d'Azeglio,
elected in i8<?r.
sir c.t. In 18 6 3 the election of Mr. C. T. Newton, already
Newton, since 18 /4 a valued correspondent of the Society,
S£?'ht gave new strength to the learned element in its ranks,
&c. ' and at the same time knitted closer the ties by which
the Dilettanti had long been connected with the
British Museum. For nearly thirty years, until
the complete breakdown of his health, Mr. (after-
wards Sir Charles) Newton filled at the meetings and
in the business of the Society the place naturally due
to his position and attainments. To the founda-
tions laid at Shrewsbury and Christchurch he had
added a unique experience of life and exploration
in the Levant j and now, since his appointment
as Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities
in the British Museum, stood as the acknowledged
head of the practical archaeologists, epigraphers,
and antiquarian excavators of Europe. Distinguished
alike as a scholar and a man of the world, and
in looks resembling some rather weather-worn
antique Jupiter from among his own marbles, his
demeanour to strangers was marked by a touch
of suspicious caution and reserve which caused
him sometimes to be misunderstood; but to his
friends no man bore a warmer heart, and in con-
genial society few had a greater charm, derived
alike from scholarly breeding and a ripe and
humorous experience of men and things. In i&6y