The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

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THE Rev. GEORGE CORNELIUS. GORHAM.—The
ancient Anglo-Breton family of the De Gorroms can be
traced in Brittany to the beginning of the twelfth century.
Three branches of this family settled respectively in the
counties of Hertford, Leicester, and Northampton. Mr.
and,
Gorham
in
1805,is a nativeent:r e odf
Queen'sSt . Noe tcollege, Cambridge, of's in Huntingdonshire,
which the late Dr. Milner, Dean of Carlisle, was then
president. During his usual academical course, Mr.
Gorham obtained the mathematical, classical, and theolo-
gical prizes, which that society had to bestow on the
students and the bachelors of arts of the college. He
obtained also two university prizes. While yet an un-
dergraduate, in 1808, the Norrisian gold medal was
awarded to him for an " Essay on Public Worship."
He took his degree of B.A. in January 1809, on which
occasion he was the third wrangler of his year, the pre-
sent Baron Alderson being the senior wrangler. On the
contest for Dr. Smith's two mathematical prizes, the
examinations for which take place immediately after the
conclusion of the bestowment of the degrees on the
bachelors of arts, he had the distinction of dividing the
second prize with the second wrangler, Mr. Standley,
afterwards Vicar of Southoe. This is, we believe, the
only instance of that prize having been divided. Imme-
diately after this Mr. Gorham quitted Cambridge for a
year and a half, and resided at Edinburgh, as the compa-
nion of a nobleman of his own standing and university,
on the recommendation of Dean Milner, and the late
William Wilberforce. During this period (in 1810) he
was elected fellow of Queen's College, and in 1811 ob-
tained a divinity prize, given annually to a bachelor of
arts of that society. In 1811 he was ordained deacon,
and in 1812 priest, by 'Dr. Damphier, Bishop of Ely.
On the former of these occasions the Bishop instituted'a
private examination, and threatened to withhold ordina-
tion from him, on the very subject of baptismal regenera-
tion, on which the Bishop of Exeter thirty-seven years
afterwards, refused him institution. The young deacon
stood firm to his principles, and the worthy bishop, wiser
or more tolerant than his brother prelate, had the grace
to give way.—Bentley's Miscellany.

A SCHOOLMASTER OF THE OLD SCHOOL.—For high
crimes and misdemeanours the penalty was flogging in
public. Swearing and profanity were the chief of these.
At prayers we used to kneel along the two forms in the
middle of the school. The " candle custodiers" alone re-
-1 at their de

mainet ces during evening prayer time. - One
of these young gentlemen, once upon a night, got a cop-
per cap, and employed his devotional leisure in fixing it
on the head of a nail. The moment the final "Amen"
was uttered, before we could rise, he exto- led th'

...le cap,
The report was terrific in the silence of the large school-
room. Old Bob insisted on the name of the transgressor
being surrendered, and flogged him immediately on the
spot. His rage on this occasion was extreme, and was
mingled with a strange agitation. The next day this was