Calcutta. His father, Mr. Elliot Macnaghten, went out at sixteen to India in 1823, after five years at Rugby, and became an officer of the Supreme Court at Calcutta. He left India in 1838, was elected a Director of the East India Company in 1841, and on the assumption of the Government of India by the Crown in 1859, became a member of the Secretary of State's Council. He was a man of much natural ability, quickness of perception, determination, and general force of character. These qualities Chester inherited, tempered by the sweet gentleness and absolute unselfishness of his mother, whose character was doubtless in his thoughts when he wrote the address entitled "Gentle." His mind in boyhood and youth was bright and active, but his bodily health was feeble. He suffered severely and continually from asthma. He could not go to Harrow, as was intended, and most of his time before Cambridge was spent at Bonchurch with Mr. Edmund Venables, afterwards. Canon of Lincoln.* He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1862, and read for Classical Honours; but his work was sadly interrupted by illness, and in

* Canon Venables wrote of him in 1866 :- "He has a singular faculty of attaching persons to him, and I have never known a young man who was regarded with such affectionate respect by a large circle of friends. His conduct is guided by a deep sense of religion, which is free from all extravagance; and I feel sure that the insensible influence of his pure and lovely character would be highly beneficial to any young persons with whom he might be associated."

1864 he went out to India for the sake of the voyage, and was away six months. However, in 1866, in spite of all, he was twelfth in the second class of the Classical Tripos. The writer of these lines, with whom, though only one month his senior, he read classics for the twelve months before his Tripos (and for whom the priceless possession of his perfect friendship dates from then), had abundant opportunity to judge of the excellent quality of his scholarship. His Latin writing, especially his verse, was, like his English, pure and sound and simple. He loved Virgil best of classical writers. He had exquisite taste in literature, as in other things. If he had had health, and been able to read more widely, his place in the Tripos would have been a high one. He went out to India in May 1866, and in June was appointed tutor to the present Maharaja of Darbhanga, then nine years old. In December 1870 he became the first head of the Rajkumar College at Rajkot, in Kathiawar, and at this post he remained, except for occasional visits to England, until the end. His work was wearing, and anxious, and continuous; but he loved it, and love gave strength. When we thought of the frailty of his bodily frame, we wondered at the unflagging zeal, the indomitable spirit, with which for so many years he taught and trained, in mind and body, boys who all needed so much of his care, and were of such different ages, and habits, and disposition. He joined in their games, having until latterly

no European colleague or assistant; taught them to play cricket, even football; rode with them daily. Ranjitsinhji, who has since won fame on English cricket-fields, learnt cricket from him. He introduced them to some of the best things in English literature (as the addresses and his speech-day programmes bear witness), as well as in their own. Above all, he accustomed them to high thoughts and noble aims, and taught them to think that the best thing for them was to live for others. He understood them, he cared for them as his friends; and with the wonderful fascination of his sympathetic and loving nature he won a response of love from them. He came home at the end of 1892, in rather broken health, and with some thought of retiring; but a long rest refreshed him, and he went back again in the autumn of 1894 to finish his time. He was very happy after returning, and improved in health, and wrote last October most gratefully of his "admirable colleague" Mr. Waddington (by whom his place had been filled during his absence), who " was absent last term," he says, "but will be back in a week, and will relieve me of the physical strain altogether": and he adds, "We quite hope to hold on now until the end of my service, and are both glad we came back to work; for we now see, more clearly than we saw then, that it was the right thing to do. It is a great thing to go on and not stop till one must." The end was not

far off. His illness (peritonitis) was a very short