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Letters to His Friends By: Forbes Robinson (1867-1904) |
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BY FORBES ROBINSON
LATE FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
AND EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE
BY HIS BROTHER CHARLES SECOND EDITION PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION BY SPOTTISWOODE & CO. LTD., LONDON. 1904
NOTE
This volume has been printed for private circulation at the request of
many of Forbes Robinson's personal friends. The first edition having
been exhausted, a second has been prepared, in which are included six
additional letters (cf. pp. 151, 154, 164, 166, 167, 182). Copies of
this volume will be supplied (price 2s. 6d. post free) to all who
desire to obtain them, on application to the Rev. Canon Charles H.
Robinson, Hill Brow, Woking. The volume of College and Ordination
Addresses which will be published by Longmans in about two months' time
can be ordered through any bookseller. October 1904.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY SKETCH CHAPTER. PAGE I. SCHOOLDAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. LIFE AS AN UNDERGRADUATE AT CAMBRIDGE . . . . 10
III. WORK AT CAMBRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
IV. THE LAST FEW MONTHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
V. TWO APPRECIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
ILLUSTRATIONS Forbes Robinson . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece Forbes Robinson (1880) Forbes Robinson (1887)
{1} INTRODUCTORY SKETCH CHAPTER I SCHOOLDAYS Forbes Robinson was born on November 13, 1867, in the vicarage of
Keynsham, a village in Somerset lying between Bristol and Bath. He was
the eleventh child in a family of thirteen, of whom eight were sons and
five daughters. His parents were both from the north of Ireland, and
his Christian name had been his mother's surname. The motto attached
to his father's family crest was 'Non nobis solum sed toti mundo nati.'
Before he was three years old his father moved to Liverpool and became
incumbent of St. Augustine's, Everton. He died before Forbes was
thirteen, but the memory of his holy life remained as an abiding
influence. Thus he writes of him in 1903: 'The old memories form a kind of sacred history urging me onwards and
upwards. I like to feel that I reap the prayers and thanksgivings of
my father, that God blesses the son of such a father. The same work,
the same God, the same promises, the same hope, the same sure and
certain reward. I thank God and take courage.' {2} As a boy he was never robust and might even be regarded as
delicate. After attending one or two private schools he was entered,
at the age of twelve, at Liverpool College, where five of his brothers
had been. When his father died in February 1881, the house in
Liverpool was given up and Forbes was sent to Rossall. He continued at
Rossall till he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1887. The photograph which is inserted on p. 4 was taken just before he went
to Rossall. He was then a shy retiring boy, fonder of reading than of
athletic exercise. One who was in the same house with him at Rossall,
and who is now vicar of a parish in Lancashire, writes: 'His life at Rossall was not an outwardly eventful one. Not being
athletic, he lived rather apart from and above the rest of us in a
world of books. The walls of his study used to be almost covered with
extracts, largely, I think, from the poets, copied on to scraps of
paper and pinned up all round, partly to be learnt by heart and partly,
I think, for companionship. He was much older than the rest of us
whose years were the same as his. His school life was a time of
retirement and preparation for the wider life among men at Cambridge.
Though my memory of him as a quiet studious member of the house, more
often alone than not, and quite happy to be alone so long as his books
were near him, is very distinct, I can recall almost nothing of the
nature of incident or about which one can write... Continue reading book >>
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