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Fasti Etonenses; A Biographical History of Eton, Selected From the Lives of Celebrated Etonians
Fasti Etonenses A Biographical History of Eton Selected From the Lives of Celebrated Etonians Author:Arthur Christopher Benson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: R. I. Drake Subjects: Education / General Education / History Education / Secondary 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 editio... more »n of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HAWTREY S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 389 Whately, Milman, Baron Alderson, and Henry Taylor are mentioned as among the frequent guests. Not less remarkable was the presence of the distinguished foreigners, such as Guizot and Barthelemy St. Hilaire, who visited him. Hawtrey died, unmarried, in 1862, and was the last person to be buried in Eton Chapel. There is a portrait of him by Helene Feillet, painted in 1853, which hangs in the Provost's Lodge. In 1878 a recumbent figure of him by Nicholls was placed in the Chapel, in a monument designed by Woodyer, but it can hardly be said to be a characteristic likeness. It must be confessed that, to judge from his portraits and the descriptions given of him, Dr. Hawtrey was a singularly ugly man. His head was large and thrown back as he walked ; one shoulder lower than the other ; the lower part of his face was disproportionately large, and his upper lip was portentously long ; his complexion was pallid with red patches, and he had large and expressive eyes which were set far back under heavy eye-brows ; his hair was grown rather long, in inelegant wisps. But it must not be supposed that he was careless of his personal appearance ; like Aristotle, he devoted a considerable time to his toilet. The luxurious and expansive rhetoric, in which he delighted to indulge, had its counterpart in the elaborate attention to dress, and the exuberant, even extravagant, wealth of adventitious detail with which his person was surrounded, adornments which, it must be confessed,39...« less