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The Book of the Cambridge Review, 1879-1897
The Book of the Cambridge Review 18791897 Author:The Cambridge Review General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Macmillan and Bowes Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you... more » can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ESMONDS OF CASTLEWOOD AND THE WARRINGTONS OF SUFFOLK [JUNK I3, 1889] In Time for April appears an article by Mr. E. C. K. Conner on Thackeray's genealogies. Mr. Conner gives the genealogies of the Warringtons, of the New- comes, the Fokers, and the Floracs, but curiously enough omits the genealogy of the Esmonds, over which Mr. Thackeray was so careful. I have always felt a deep interest in my dear and honoured friend, Colonel Esmond, and all that concerned him. I have read and re-read his stately history, I know not how many times. I have made pilgrimages to the rooms in Trinity which are believed to have been his "in the great court close by the gate, and near to the famous Mr. Newton's lodgings.1' I have mused by the side of the tomb of Beatrix's boyish lover in King's Chapel. Some years ago I endeavoured to reconstruct that family tree, which we know Colonel Esmond prepared in his later years, representing " the family springing from the Emperor Charlemagne on the one hand, who was drawn in plate-armour, with his imperial mantle and diadem, and on the other from Queen Boadicea, whom the Colonel insisted upon painting in the light costume of an ancient British queen, with a prodigious gilded crown, a trifling mantle of furs, and a lovely symmetrical person, tastefully tattooed with figures of a brilliant blue tint." Oh ! why did George Warrington (of Lamb Court, Upper Temple) neglect to give us this, while editing the memoirs of his relatives? Had he done so, he must have supplemented it by a pedigree of the Warringtons and then we should have been ...« less