History of Wendover in the county of Buckingham; with illustrations and sketch maps . , having several relatives of that calling. To sul)sequently become twice Lord Mayor of London, we know he must have prospered in his calling, and his marriage to a granddaughter of Humphry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, also, no doubt, aided him in his career. He had no less than 22 children— 11 sons and 11 daugliters — all of whom died young except the eldest, John, born in 1465, but the exception is a considerable one, as John became in later life the famous Dean. Sir Henrvs Arms are given in the De 13 WdJc
History of Wendover in the county of Buckingham; with illustrations and sketch maps . , having several relatives of that calling. To sul)sequently become twice Lord Mayor of London, we know he must have prospered in his calling, and his marriage to a granddaughter of Humphry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, also, no doubt, aided him in his career. He had no less than 22 children— 11 sons and 11 daugliters — all of whom died young except the eldest, John, born in 1465, but the exception is a considerable one, as John became in later life the famous Dean. Sir Henrvs Arms are given in the De 13 WdJclrii Lthrnrji as tliiee colts trii)paiit and it may be remarked that in the Deans Arms,o-iven in Dr. Luptons Life, binds take the place of Henry died in 1505, and his son, in addition tobecoming- Dean of St. Pauls and friend and teacher ofErasmus, was, of course, the founder of the School ofSt. Pauls. He was a lifelong celibate—possibly thedeath of all his numerous brothers and sisters tended iofoster his preference for the unmarried state, further. DEAX COLKT. encouraged, Dr. Lupton suggests, by the tone of thetime when even a Sir Thomas More could say thatthere was but one woman a slirew, and every marriedman had got her; or in which the solitary hon mot pre-served of old Judge More was that marrying was likedipping ones hand into a bag full of snakes, havingamongst them one eel. Xow, if a man should puthis hand into this bag, he may chance to light on theeel, but it is a hundred to one he shall be stung with asnake. - 14 This, however, deals with one of the less favourableaspects of the Deans character, and Dr. Liipton putsihe value of his life and work not merely in its materialresults in the cause of education, nor in his writing-s orcommentaries, but in the example he left us of a noblelife, a life of unappeasable striving after the highest. Dean Colet appointed the Mercers Company asGovernors of St. Pauls School, and most of the Haleestat
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