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1856] WHO SHALL BE HIS CHAPLAINS? 207
you shall answer before Almighty God, that you never by word
or deed give encouragement to those d d Whigs who would
upset the Church of England. ... I was afterwards sworn of
the Privy Council, where met and was introduced to most of the
Ministers. Lord Lansclowne said he had known my mother."
Almost his first aim on appointment to the See had
been to secure the help of a thoroughly efficient body of
chaplains, and to this end he took counsel far and near.
In the light of subsequent events, the following letter is
too remarkable to be omitted :
Canon A. P. Stanley to the Bishop of Lonaon.
Oct. 12, 1856.
"... I am very glad you have applied to Temple. I am
sure that he is the best choice, and now, in case he should fail
you at Christmas or any other time, I shall be very happy to
supply his place.
- has many qualifications ; active, learned, and liberal.
He is over-Maurician, and has some of the savage qualities of
Cantabrigians. He has also eccentricities of his own. . . .
If you cannot think of any one else, you might go further and
fare worse. I cannot call to mind any younger Cambridge
pupils. By far the best Cambridge man of fit age and the like
that occurs to me is Benson^ Fellow of Trinity, now at Rugby.
He has very pleasing manners, is a very good scholar and divine,
preaches well, and is a thoroughly religious man. I think he
might be worth inquiring after. He must be about twenty-eight
or thirty. A man of the same kind, but I don t know much
about him personally, is Westcott of Harrow. They
more agreeable in manner than .
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are both
One other Cambridge name occurs to me Lightfoot, Fellow
and, I think, Tutor of Trinity of the same stamp as Westcott
and Benson, but with the advantage of having a more inde
pendent position. All I know of him is an article in the Cam
bridge Philological Review^ which contained an attack on the
scholarship and accents of my book on the Corinthians, but was
written with great candour and kindness, as was also a corre
spondence consequent thereon. And I have heard that he is a
good man. . . .--Ever yours, A. P. STANLEY."