62 TWO 19 TH CENTURY MASTERS I <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2013</strong> Pickles (eds.) Romilly’s <strong>Cambridge</strong> Diary, 1848-1864 (<strong>Cambridge</strong>shire Record Society, XIV (2000), 8 January 1858. The diaries <strong>of</strong> Joseph Romilly, the <strong>University</strong> Registrary, have been edited in three volumes: 1833- 1842 (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1967); 1842-1847 (C.R.S. IX (1994) (ed. Patrick Bury); and this one. All three are subsequently cited as Romilly, with the entry date. 3 Romilly, 6 July 1835. 4 Romilly, 3 and 6 July 1835. 5 Romilly, 16 October 1840; 20 February 1847. 6 D.A. Winstanley, Early Victorian <strong>Cambridge</strong> (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1936) 66-71. 7 <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> Commissioners, <strong>Report</strong> (London 1852) Correspondence, page 2; Romilly, 2 December 1850. 8 Romilly, 5 November 1850. 9 Winstanley, 234-5; Romilly, 2 and 10 December 1850. For the letter to the Manager <strong>of</strong> the Eastern Counties Railway Company, M. Holroyd (ed.) Memorials <strong>of</strong> the Life <strong>of</strong> George Elwes Corrie (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1890) 270-1 (subsequently cited as Memorials); and for the background, Reginald B. Fellows, Railways to <strong>Cambridge</strong>, Actual and Proposed, and London to <strong>Cambridge</strong> by Train 1845-1938 (both <strong>Cambridge</strong> 1976). 10 Quoted, Winstanley ibid; Romilly, 13 February 1850, 10 December 1851. 11 D.A. Winstanley, Later Victorian <strong>Cambridge</strong> (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1946) 308. Isobel O. Morgan (ed.) Memoirs <strong>of</strong> Henry Arthur Morgan (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1927) 140 (cited subsequently as Morgan Memoirs). 12 Winstanley, (note 6) ibid; (note 11) 269; see also Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church (London 1966-70) vol. i., 128. 13 The statement and other comments in Arthur Gray and Frederick Brittain, A History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> (2nd ed.) (London 1960), carried over from the first (1902) edition and now copied into the Oxford Dictionary <strong>of</strong> National Biography that the <strong>College</strong> saw a “gradual and melancholy decline” during French’s Mastership is borne out neither by the detailed data provided by J.A. Venn, The Entries at the <strong>College</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> 1544-1906 (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1908) and ibid, Oxford and <strong>Cambridge</strong> Matriculations 1544-1930 (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1930), nor by the evidence in this paper. 14 Note 7, Evidence from the <strong>University</strong>, 226-230. 15 Morgan Memoirs 125; Clive Dewey, The Passing <strong>of</strong> Barchester (London 1991) 89-90; Manual (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1859); Romilly, 11 February 1858. 16 For H.A. Morgan: Glazebrook, <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2012, 49-58. 17 (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1858). 18 <strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>College</strong> Archives (subsequently JCA) M.D7.8 (Corrie’s Papers). 19 Memorials, 180; Percy Melville Thornton, Some Things We Have Remembered (London 1912), 167 (Thornton matriculated at <strong>Jesus</strong> in 1860); Morgan Memoirs, 138. 20 Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd Series, vol. 32 (1949) 655 (French); H.A. Morgan in Memorials, 339-40 (Corrie). 21 1837 was a bumper year (£265 – 5 – 8: £18,500 in <strong>2013</strong> money) though an appreciative Fellow assured French that no one could expect this level to be maintained (Tancred to French, 6 January 1838): JCA French’s Papers (2). 22 Gentleman’s Magazine, 2nd Series, vol. 32 (1849) 655-6. 23 Romilly, 15 and 17 November 1845 24 Memorials, 242 25 Obituary, <strong>Cambridge</strong> Review, 19 May 1886. 26 <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> Commissioners <strong>Report</strong> (London 1878), Evidence, 226-30. 27 (York 1801); Obituary, Chanticleer, No. 1 (October 1885) 6. 28 Memorials, 253, 276, 336; J.F. White, The <strong>Cambridge</strong> Movement (<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1962) 153. 29 David Verey and Alan Brooks, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds (Buildings <strong>of</strong> England) (London 1999) (King’s Stanley). 30 Romilly, 5 and 14 November 1850. 31 Memorials 73, 154, 228, 311. 32 Memorials 73, 89, 113, 213; Romilly, 6 and 14 November 1850. 33 JCA. M.D7.8 (Corrie papers). 34 JCA. Iris Morgan’s Album 54 (letter <strong>of</strong> October 1924). 35 What Corrie himself described in his last sermon as “a long period <strong>of</strong> gradual decline” and failing eye-sight followed what seems to have been a stroke in 1878. Thereafter the Conclusions Book, even when he was present at a <strong>College</strong> meeting, was <strong>of</strong>ten signed in his name by Westmorland. In the last three years <strong>of</strong> his life he was a complete invalid and <strong>of</strong>ten unable to read. 36 Note 34 above. 37 Peter Meadows (ed.) Ely – Bishops and Diocese 1109-2009 (Woodbridge 2010), 252-4. 38 Memorials, 243, 291. 39 JCA. M.D7.8 (Corrie’s reasons for not leaving the <strong>College</strong> anything in his will); Memorials 346 (Arthur Gray). 40 Memorials, 270. 41 Note 27, above. 42 Corrie chose to be buried beside the church porch at Newton, and even today is not forgotten there. The serving <strong>of</strong> refreshments after Sunday morning service is brought to an end with the formula: “it’s now time to take Dr Corrie his tea”, and the teapot is emptied out not far from his grave. 43 Like Corrie, he had rebuffed the Royal Commissioners: <strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>University</strong> Commission, <strong>Report</strong>, (London 1852), Correspondence, p.3. 44 Morgan Memoirs, 123. 45 Note 34 above. Unsurprisingly, a kindlier picture is presented in the Obituary and Memorial Sermon (by H.A. Morgan), Chanticleer, No. 1 (October 1885), 2-9, 9-14. 46 JCA. Master and Fellows 3 (20 June 1871).
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