From the admirable monograph on the late Sir Stephen Gast]
prepared by Mr. A. F. S. Gow for the British Academy, I extr two points. Sir Stephen was the third of his line to be knighted.
great-grandfather, the first Sir Stephen Gaselee, was the original Dickens's Mr. Justice Stareleigh (pronounce the " s " in Gase' as a " z," and no more explanation is needed), of Bardell v. Picky: fame: the identification is familiar, I think, in legal, circles, not among the general public. The other point is the " Gr During Meat," composed by Gaselee, well-known as an epicw during a lunch at Calais: " On china blue my lobster red ,Precedes my cutlet brown,
With which my salad green is sped By yellow Chablis down.
" Lord, if good living be no sin But innocent delight, O polarize these hues within To one eupeptic white."
Few of Gaselee's colleagues on the Council of the Wine Food Society could have improved on this.
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