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Preface xi -- I Family Background and Early Childhood (to 1823) 3 -- II Charterhouse School (1823-1828) 24 -- III Park House and Trinity College (1828-1837) 38 -- IV The Glasgow Professorship (1838-1875) 69 -- V The Old Order Changeth (1830-1841) 92 -- VI A Wife Ere Noon (1842) 112 -- VII An Ill-Fated Heir and a Stillborn Book (1843-1844) 129 -- VIII The Princess and a Maltese Appointment (1845-1847) 140 -- IX A Precarious Stability (1848-1853) 159 -- X The Shadow Feared of Man (1854-1860) 186 -- XI Middle Years, More Sorrow (1860-1874) 209 -- XII Park House and Boxley Churchyard (1875-1893) 231 -- Abbreviations Used in Notes 259 -- Notes 261 -- Index 279