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196 History of the Society of Dilettanti
Home Secretary, Mr. (now the Right Hon. Sir
Richard) Paget, M.P., Mr. Milnes Gaskell, and
Sir Robert Cunliffe j from the army, Colonel (now
General Sir George) Higginson; from diplomacy,
Lord Dalling and Lord Lytton; from the law,
a profession hitherto scantily represented in the
Society's ranks, a strong contingent, including Sir
W. F. Pollock, Sir W. J. Farrer, Mr. George
Venables, Q\_C., Mr. Pember, QX., Mr. Charles
Bowen (afterwards Lord Bowen), Mr. Elton, QJC.,
the learned antiquarian and historian of his country's
origins, Sir Robert Collier (afterwards Lord Monks-
well), almost as proficient in landscape-painting as he
was distinguished at the bar and in politics, Sir Horace
Davey (now Lord Davey), and Sir Joseph Chitty.
Pollock, Among this legal group, three at least of those
VenMes, who are with us no more must claim from their
survivors among the Dilettanti a special tribute
of remembrance and regret. Sir Frederick Pollock,
who filled for many years the office of Queen's
Remembrancer, was not the least distinguished
of a distinguished family. From Cambridge days
and always an attached friend of Tennyson, of
Edward Fitzgerald, of James Spedding, and of
W. H. Thompson, late Master of Trinity, he
lived all his life in intimate relations with the
best spirits of his time, and was accustomed to
hear pleasantries of his own—attributed often to
far more famous wits—pass current in familiar
quotation. He was one of the most instructed of
Dante scholars, as his exact blank-verse rendering
of the Divine Comedy testifies, and as editor of the
Reminiscences of Macready and author of Personal
l{emembrances has left some interesting impressions of
social experience. From the death of Sir Edward
Botven.
Home Secretary, Mr. (now the Right Hon. Sir
Richard) Paget, M.P., Mr. Milnes Gaskell, and
Sir Robert Cunliffe j from the army, Colonel (now
General Sir George) Higginson; from diplomacy,
Lord Dalling and Lord Lytton; from the law,
a profession hitherto scantily represented in the
Society's ranks, a strong contingent, including Sir
W. F. Pollock, Sir W. J. Farrer, Mr. George
Venables, Q\_C., Mr. Pember, QX., Mr. Charles
Bowen (afterwards Lord Bowen), Mr. Elton, QJC.,
the learned antiquarian and historian of his country's
origins, Sir Robert Collier (afterwards Lord Monks-
well), almost as proficient in landscape-painting as he
was distinguished at the bar and in politics, Sir Horace
Davey (now Lord Davey), and Sir Joseph Chitty.
Pollock, Among this legal group, three at least of those
VenMes, who are with us no more must claim from their
survivors among the Dilettanti a special tribute
of remembrance and regret. Sir Frederick Pollock,
who filled for many years the office of Queen's
Remembrancer, was not the least distinguished
of a distinguished family. From Cambridge days
and always an attached friend of Tennyson, of
Edward Fitzgerald, of James Spedding, and of
W. H. Thompson, late Master of Trinity, he
lived all his life in intimate relations with the
best spirits of his time, and was accustomed to
hear pleasantries of his own—attributed often to
far more famous wits—pass current in familiar
quotation. He was one of the most instructed of
Dante scholars, as his exact blank-verse rendering
of the Divine Comedy testifies, and as editor of the
Reminiscences of Macready and author of Personal
l{emembrances has left some interesting impressions of
social experience. From the death of Sir Edward
Botven.