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30 assiduously, perhaps, than the genial potentates of Eton — for the arena of academic life. One of Mr. Shore's daughters remembers still the impression created by Canning's air of thoughtful intelligence — his modest tones — his girl-like blushes — his kindness to the little daughters of the house. Here Charles Canning was joined by the grandson of the first Lord Harris, with whom he formed a life-long friendship, by Lord Granville, and Mr. Charles Howard. Here 'ingenuous arts' blossomed, as they ought, into gracious behaviour. 'Lord Granville,' says the chronicler, 'made himself as charming to us little girls as ever he did since, I suppose, to the finest ladies or to a public audience.' From this agreeable tutelage Canning passed in December, 1828, to Oxford, and was entered as a student of Christ Church, where his father had resided forty years before. Two of his Oxford contemporaries and associates, Dalhousie and Elgin, were destined, as himself, to occupy the post of Governor-General of India. 'I was about a year with him at Christ Church,' writes Lord Granville, 'where he was one of a brilliant set. Gladstone, Sidney Herbert, Lord Lincoln, James Hope, the present Dean of Christ Church, Lord Selborne, Lord Cardwell, and Lord Malmesbury, had just taken their degrees: but Lord Elgin, Lord Dalhousie, Fred. Bruce, Stephen Denison, were still there.' Among Canning's other associates were Mr. (Sir) Robert Phillimore and Lord De Tabley, whose friendship lasted to the grave.

In this congenial society Lord Canning led a life of