justly demanded. It was not likely that he should consent to retain his post as a subaltern under a new commander; and, in consequence, he not only relinquished his situation at Harrow, but was accompanied to the neighbouring village of Stanmore, where he established a school, by about sixty seceders. On this occasion he invited two of his colleagues, Mr. Drury and Mr. Roderick, to accompany him. The latter followed the fortunes of his friend to Stanmore; the former, after some deliberation, determined to remain at Harrow. His association with Parr, in their joint labours, had not been of much more than two years' duration; so that no very intimate union had been formed between them. There was also a good deal of dissimilarity in their general manners and habits, although on neither side prejudicial to mutual respect. Their intercourse, in after years, was not very frequent, either personally or by correspondence; yet was it occasionally kept alive by mutual acts of remembrance; and, at a distance of near sixty years from the time of their separation, Parr, in the bequest of a ring, as a token of early regard, mentions the name of Drury, to whom he leaves it, as that of the " deservedly successful master of Harrow school." The Rev. I. Smith, at that time rector of Stanmore, who had been brought up at Lichfield, with Johnson and Garrick, was a man very remarkable for the elegance of his wit, and fertility of his imagination. Mr. Drury took great delight in his society, and that of the very clever men he assembled round his fireside; but it unfortunately happened that Parr, owing to some offence taken by him, ceased to be one of them very soon after he had established himself at Stan

more.

Mr. Smith died in 1781. Mr. Drury performed the last services of our church over his remains, and inscribed a simple sentence or two on his tomb; the expressed wishes of the deceased forbidding any more elaborate notice of his talents.

Dr. B. Heath, after a good deal of opposition, having at length firmly established himself at Harrow, the wide connections of the school, and the undoubted abilities of its masters, soon rendered the short-lived rivalry of Stanmore a matter of little noment. For fourteen years, in addition to those passed under Sumner, the subject of this memoir continued to instruct with uniform diligence, judgment, and discretion; to rouse the indolence of the sluggish; to direct the taste, and control the exuberance, of the imaginative; and, both by precept and a most persuasive example, to sow the seeds of moral and religious excellence, not without the external ornament of those manners which become an English gentleman.

In 1777, Mr. Drury married Louisa, youngest daughter of Benjamin Heath, Esq., LL.D., of Exeter, and sister of the head master of Harrow, as, also, of Dr. George Heath, afterwards Master of Eton and Canon of Windsor, on the same day in which her sister Rose was united to the Rev. Thomas Bromley, also one of the assistant masters of Harrow. Mr. Heath of Exeter was one of the first classical scholars of the age, and well known as such both at home and abroad. His "Notæ in veteres Tragicos Græcos" is a work very remarkable for critical acuteness, and for soundness of learning. His "Revisal of Shakspeare's Text," addressed to Lord Kaimes, and originating in the writer's estimate of Warburton, " the licentiousness of whose criticism overleaps all bounds or restraint, while the slightest glitter of a heated imagination is sufficient to mislead him into the most improbable conjectures," was also a performance of great vigour and taste. From him, too, came the first nucleus of that library which, having descended to his son Benjamin, afterwards expanded into the Bibliotheca Heathiana, the memory of the sale of which is still fresh in the minds of collectors. To some who are fond of local association, it may not be uninteresting to be told that the house in which Mr. Drury resided after his marriage, until his appointment to the head mastership, was that next the inn at the entrance of Harrow from London. Amongst his earlier inmates and pupils, while he continued to reside there, were the two sons of Lord Charles Spencer, the present Marquis of Westminster,

Spencer Perceval, Lord Moira (afterwards Marquis of Hastings), Sir Joseph Yorke, the late Sir John Reade, the late Sir George Robinson, Sir C. Hudson Palmer, and the late Mr. Henry Drummond, of Charing Cross, some of whose sons were also among his most attached pupils, of a more recent date.

The society of the place was calculated both for relaxation and improvement. Mr. Orde, who had been Secretary in Ireland, and was afterwards created Lord Bolton, from the elegance of his mind and variety of his attainments, might be considered its chief ornament. Sheridan was also, for some years, about this period, an inhabitant of Harrow; and, with his beautiful and fascinating wife (the celebrated Miss Linley), conferred no small degree of brilliancy on the circle. In the house which he occupied -- the Grove (now the residence of Mr. Kennedy), Tickell and his lady (Mrs. Sheridan's sister) were frequent inmates. George Glasse, well known as a playful scholar and amusing companion, lived within two miles' distance. Dr. Demainbray, who was married to a sister of Horne Tooke, was in the habit, when spared from his duties at Windsor, of resorting to a cottage in the immediate neighbourhood. Admiral Meadows (afterwards first Earl Manners), Mr. Page of Wembley, and, later than some of the above, but contemporary with others, Aloysius Pisani, a Venetian nobleman, who had fled from the earlier disturbances of the French revolution, formed, together with the gentlemen engaged in the duties of the school, a society such as is rarely to be found, united within a circle of the same extent, in the country; and in which the subject of our memoir found occasional relaxation of the most agreeable kind, while engaged in the laborious duties of his office. Much of his early vacations was also spent, together with Mrs. Drury, in a manner still more congenial to his dis position, among friends whom his many engaging qualities had first attracted and afterwards united to him by bonds of the closest attachment; the more creditable, when it is remembered that he entered life without any advantages of family or connection. At the house of the elder Mr. Drummond, the banker, who then resided with his wife, Lady Elizabeth Drummond, at Langley Park, near Uxbridge, and who was the father of one of his earliest pupils, he passed much of this holyday time; and was there in the habit of meeting with some of the first society (including political characters) of the day; such as Lord North, the first Lord Melville (then Mr. Dundas), and others, with whom the kindness of the host always placed him on terms of the most easy or familiar intercourse. Sir Charles Hudson, of Wanlip, in Leicestershire, was another of these early friends, with whose family he subsequently formed a very great intimacy. At his house, in town, the first musical performers of the day were frequently assembled. Mr. and Mrs. Bates and Greatorex were there constantly, on the most familiar footing; a circumstance of no small attraction to an ardent lover of the art, in which he was also himself no mean proficient. The first Lord Harrowby and Mr. Powys, afterwords Lord Lilford, men less remarkable for their rank than their character and ability, were likewise among those who showed him the greatest attention, and reposed a long and unlimited confidence in him in matters regarding his situation. With Sir George Baker, physician to George the Third, he enjoyed a very close intimacy, and esteemed him one of the most finished scholars of his acquaintance.

These rare social and intellectual enjoyments were, however, almost exclusively reserved for the intervals of vacation. During the whole period of school-time his devotion to his professional duties was unremitted, - his perseverance unbroken; and, while thus seriously occupied, even the occasional indulgence of a musical evening, protracted to a late hour of the night by the irresistible charm of Mrs. Sheridan's voice, was duly paid for by subtracting an equal portion from the time usually allotted to sleep; so that not even this his strongest temptation - had force sufficient to withdraw him, for a single unaccounted moment, from the rigid performance of his allotted task.

When, therefore, on his election to a fellowship in Eton College, in 1785, Dr. Benjamin Heath determined to resign the Mastership of Harrow, the eyes of most of the connections of the school naturally fell on Mr. Drury; and, for the first time for a hundred years or more, it was thought quite unnecessary to look to Eton; nor, indeed, did any gentleman from thence offer himself as a successor. Mr. Drury was, nevertheless, not elected unanimously. For, although Dr. Parr, who had retired to Stanmore on Dr. Heath's election, and who had afterwards removed to Norwich, does not appear to have come forward as a candidate, yet was his name proposed by his friends among the trustees. Both as a native of the place, a pupil, and afterwards an instructor in the school, independent of his great eminence in learning, his claims were undoubtedly great; and, about this time, he either had quitted or was about to quit Norwich, and retire to Hatton. His friends, therefore, made an attempt to seat him in the vacant chair at Harrow; but we are not aware that he used any exertions of his own in aid of their efforts.

Dr. B. Heath had retained the mastership fourteen years, and had educated some very eminent men at Harrow. The present Earl Spencer was his private pupil; and he never received any other in that capacity. The Earls of Hardwicke and Harrowby were among the statesmen whom Harrow sent forth during his supremacy. He abolished the custom of shooting for the silver arrow, so long an ancient observance at the place; and substituted public speaking in its stead. The vicinity of Harrow to the metropolis caused a conflux of disorderly characters at the archery exhibitions, which excited the more curiosity from the strangeness of the spectacle, as: archery was very little practised as an English pastime at that period; and its abolition was therefore probably a wise, although not a popular, measure.

Mr. Drury had just completed his thirty-sixth year when he obtained the head mastership. He had been so interwoven with his brother-in-law and predecessor in all their views regarding the studies of the place, that little or no im