John Stuart Mill: A Criticism with Personal Recollections

PRESSED TO ENTER TRINITY COLLEGE. 29
March 29, 1823, two months before he entered the India
House.
"
I again entreat you to permit me to write to the
tutor at Trinity to enter your son s name at that noble college.
Whatever you may wish his eventual destiny to be, his pros
perity in life cannot be retarded, but must on the contrary be
increased, by making an acquaintance at an English University
with his Patrician contemporaries." Whether it would have
been possible to induce his father to send him to Cambridge, I
very much doubt. I suspect that, of the two, the son would
have been the more intractable on the matter of subscription to
the Articles. Ten years later, it was an open question in the
house whether his brother Henry should be sent to Cambridge.