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 l\I:\C.»‘-1UI.1-\Y, ' Jabmgton,
celebrated historian, orator, essayist. and pool,
was the son of the preceding. His mother,
whose maiden name was Mills, was the daugh-
ter of a ()ualcer, had been a schoolmistress at
llristnl. and been trained under thet :arL ~ ofthe
celehr' ttetl Hannah More. His father '
having been the uife of lhomzts Habit
merchant. the future historian received those
names at the baptismal font From his biith
be exhibited sums of superimity and genius,
and more espec ially of that pom-1 ot metnoty
uhich st' titled eve1y one by its quickness, llL \1—
bilit31,and1'r1n1ge \Vhile he was 31et a boy, he
11 as in incessant request to “tell books” to
his youthful con1p:1nim1s;and at that early
date he was in the habit of repeating and de«
cl 11111111” the longest “_\11':1biau\i‘11ht"as
fluently as Schehezerade herself. A little later,
he Would recite one of Scott's noVels, story,
characters, and scenery, almost as well as
though the book were in his hands. lll\' house-
hold b-:11t1l s were, howeter, the llihl: and the
“ 1’ 111111111» P10Wress;’ and in 11131 a stronrr
passzwe in his 11: orlts of description or Vitupe-
ration sprinkled with biblical words, shows
how familiar he had been \Vl ith seliptutal
pl)!‘fl$€0l()"’y in eaily 3outb. 11mm school he
went to the university of Cambridge, where he
earned reputation by his verses and his
oratory, and by his youthful contributions to
Charles Knight’s “ Quaiteily \l' 1ga7ine. ” He
graduated l’.1»\. in 1822, and M A. in 1826.
He had already entered himself at Lincolns
11111 and been called to the bar. His real
entry into literature was th1oufrh the gates of
the “ [1 tli11b11r11h lxeview, ’ his lirst eftort being
a brilliant essay on Milton. During twenty
years this fiist contribution was followed by
1man31 others, some upon books, some upon
lives of eminent men, of which the best were
those 011 Hastings and Clive, original efforts of
his genius working on new material, the
gathering; of his own eye and ear in the coun-
tr_\1 \\hich they so spleiididly describe. His
political career w 15 commenced 111 1830, under
the auspices of Lord L ansdowne who seeing
an :11111: e 011 the ballot b3' the young barrister,
at once sought him out, and introduced him to
parliament as member for Calne. The govern-
ment made him secretary of the board of con-
trol for India, and thus secured his talents for
the service of the \Vhigs. In 1834. he went to
rlndia as a member of the supreme council ;
and havinw in two years and ahalf made a
conside1able addition to his fortune, he came
back to England to acquire fame. For a few
years he pursued both politics and letters, re-
presenting Edinbuwh in the House of Com‘
l mons and wilting artic les for the “ Edinl Jingh
‘l\e\1iew.‘ A quarrel with his constituents
broke his conneLtion “ith the House of Com-
moms, and restored him to literature. It is
1 true, the citizens of Edinburgh again chOse him