He refused the primacy of Ireland; was an
excellent governor of his college, and died universally
respected at Fulpham, in Sussex, in 1819. Dr. William
Jackson, his brother, who was Bishop of Oxford, was also
Regius Professor of Greek to that university; he died in
1815.
12 His lordship's attachment to the turf is as notorious as
his undeviating practice of the purest principles of honour.
It will not excite surprise, that such conduct has not been
in such pursuits successful.
13 The member for Durham.
~75~~Lord Deerhurst (now Earl of Coventry) had then, as now, very quick
parts, and early insight into beautiful composition. Whatever good thing
he met with, he was always ready with an immediate parallel; Latin,
Greek, or from honesty into English, nothing came amiss to him. He
had a quick sense of the ridiculous; and could scout a character at all
absurd and suspicious, with as much pleasant scurrility as a gentleman
need have.
Banks always made his own exercises, as his exercises have since made
him. He was a diligent and good boy; and though an early arithmetician,
and fond of numbers, he was as soon distinguished for very honourable
indifference to number one.
Douglas (now, I believe, Marquis of Queensberry) was remarkable for the
worst penmanship in the school, and the economy of last moments; till
then he seldom thought of an exercise.
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