. Francis Paget, bishop of Oxford, chancellor of the Order of the Garter, honorary student and sometime dean of Christ church . sister, March 20 : Bromsgrove feels a glow of self-congratulationover my son & daughter :—as one of my dear District Visitors said to me to-day, It gives universal satisfaction. 90 LIFE OF FRANCIS PAGET part i kindness & sympathy which God gave us there . .that true-hearted place . . the place in which 1 spentthe happiest bit, I think, of my life. Of Mr, Prosser,the surgeon, he writes : No one ever finds out morethan a very small fraction of Mr. Prossers gooddeeds : b
. Francis Paget, bishop of Oxford, chancellor of the Order of the Garter, honorary student and sometime dean of Christ church . sister, March 20 : Bromsgrove feels a glow of self-congratulationover my son & daughter :—as one of my dear District Visitors said to me to-day, It gives universal satisfaction. 90 LIFE OF FRANCIS PAGET part i kindness & sympathy which God gave us there . .that true-hearted place . . the place in which 1 spentthe happiest bit, I think, of my life. Of Mr, Prosser,the surgeon, he writes : No one ever finds out morethan a very small fraction of Mr. Prossers gooddeeds : but one cannot go at all among the poorwithout learning something of the work he does andthe generosity he shows. To Mr. Wilder, hewrites : Here is my young masters photograph,which I promised to send you :—1 think he looks asthough he would do credit to his birthplace . , andI trust that I never shall forget what Bromsgrovetaught me. His last visit there was in July 1909,for the sexcentenary festival of the church : and ashe went away, he said, I always feel when I come toBromsgrove that Im coming J^LttA^yf^z^Uyu^*- y a. T^- CHAPTER V CHRIST CHURCH, 1885-1891 It did not take him long to make his way in his newwork. Among some of the Christ Church tutors,there was still a feeling of resentment against his actionin 1882 ; but among undergraduates, many of whomhad been schoolboys in that year, events so remotewere of no great interest; and his work, first andforemost, was for them. Besides, it was done not forChrist Church alone, but for all Oxford. These sixyears were full of home-love and friendship : and heand Mrs. Paget found a welcome everywhere in children, during these years, 1885-1891, wereborn to them. Mr. Douglas Maclaren, vicar of Salcombe Regis,has kindly written the following account :— There are certain versatile people who, in new situations,seem to develop qualities so completely new that each freshtask or call as it comes seems to present
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