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Rh at the Coopers' Company School, Bow. During the latter period, from 1912, he also conducted a class in English Literature at the Working Men's College, St. Pancras, the College that was founded in 1854 by Frederick Denison Maurice. 'The love of all fair things was in him from the beginning,' says one who knew him intimately, 'and it was inevitable that when the call came he, choosing of the duties that lay before him that which was the greatest, should leave wife and little children and the profession he loved, and go to play a man's part in the great Crusade. The outbreak of war revealed a new side of his character. He joined one of the volunteer corps and worked with the keenest enthusiasm, finally obtaining a commission in the Border Regiment in April 1915. In his private life he was a most devoted husband and father, a brilliant conversationalist, with the gift of imparting his great store of learning without giving any idea that he was teaching.' The men of his class at the College, says a prefatory note to his