He was amongst the best poets that
Eton ever produced.
Kirkshaw, son to the late doctor, of Leeds, and since fellow of Trinity
College. When his father would have taken him away, he made a singular
request that he might stay a year longer, not wishing to be made a man
so early.
Many satiric Latin poems bear his name at Eton, and he continued that
turn afterwards at Cambridge. He was remarkable for a very large head;
but it should likewise be added, there was a good deal in it.
On this head, his father used to hold forth in the country. He was,
without a figure, the head of the school, and was afterwards in the
caput at the university.
Wyndham, under Barnard, distinguished himself very early as a scholar,
and for a logical acuteness, which does not often fall to the share of
a boy. He was distinguished too both by land and by water; for while
he was amongst the most informed of his time, in school hours, in the
playing fields, on the water, with the celebrated boatman, my guinea
piper at cricket, or in rowing, he was always the foremost. He used
to boast, that he should in time be as good a boxer as his father was,
though he used to add, that never could be exactly known, as he could
not decently have a _set-to_ with him.
~81~~ Fawkener, the major, was captain of the school; and in those days
was famed for the "_suaviter in modo_," and for a turn for gallantry
with the Windsor milliners, which he pursued up the hundred steps, and
over the terrace there.
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