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 and Hodson, who fell at Delhi. Arbuthnot, a Madras civilian, who rose to be Member of Council, then Member of the Supreme Council, Calcutta, with the significant letters K.C.S.T. attached to his name, and then Member of the Indian Council, which post he has only recently vacated.

'Adam was also my contemporary, who was on the Governor's staff, Bombay, I believe, for some years, and afterwards came out as Governor of Madras, which appointment he held for about a year and then died.

'These are a few of the many Eugbeians whom I remember and knew. They were all men of high principle, who used the advantage of the Christian and manly education they had received under Dr. Arnold for mitigating the evils around them, and promoting righteousness and prosperity to the best of their powers.'

Bishop Gell's friendship with Bradley remained to the end of his life; and, though they seldom met, they continued to correspond to the very last.

The Rugby Fox mastership of the Telugu College at Masulipatam had its origin in a movement made by Frederick Gell himself in 1848, long before he was called to the episcopate. His old schoolfellow, the Kev. H. W. Fox, went out to India in 1841, as he described in his letter ; and after establishing the mission he returned to England in 1848. His health was undermined and he died soon afterwards. Frederick Gell, with the consent of Dr. Tait, raised money, which he called the Fox Memorial Fund. The interest went towards maintaining a mastership in India for promoting Christian education at the Church Missionary Society's college at Masulipatam. To the end of his days the bishop was deeply interested in this mastership and in the Telugu College.

From Rugby Frederick Gell went to Trinity College, Cambridge. The college was chosen for him by his