In Lord Tollemache, who died at Helmingham on December Vth,
the nation loses a country gentleman of the best type. His wonderful success in providing the labourers on his estates with allotments, gardens, and cow-runs has often been described ; but the deceased was more than a kind-hearted land-reformer. A story told of him in the obituary notice in the Times shows that he was capable of real width of view. Finding that the usefulness of a middle-class school which he had helped to establish in his own district was likely to be destroyed by the petty jealousies, always rife in the country, between Church and
• Chapel, and by the objection felt by the richer inhabitants to allow their children to be educated with those of their poorer neighbours, he sent his own sons to the school, and kept them there for more than a year. This action saved the school, and shamed the district out of its snobbishness.
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