Philip Pusey / [Sir Ernest Clarke].

  • Clarke, Ernest, Sir.
Date:
1900
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Philip Pusey / [Sir Ernest Clarke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was afterwards published bv Lord Carnarvon,1 as a note to his book on u Portugal and Galicia,” issued in 1836, and in its day a very popular work. Pusey, his mind expanded and his interests enlarged by foreign travel, returned home at the end of June 1822, and, his father’s objections being at length waived or conquered, he was married to Lady Emily Herbert on October 4, 1822. Lady Emily was beautiful,2 graceful, accomplished, a great reader of poetry, theology and science, and an artist at least in knowledge and feeling (she was a pupil of Copley Fielding). The central feature of her character was a remarkable combination of strength and tenderness. She was throughout an affectionate and helpful supporter of her husband, and her influence for good over her brother-in-law Edward was hardly less conspicuous. During the early years of their marriage, Pusey and his wife lived for some time at Rome, in the Palazzo Aldobrandini, where they made the acquaintance of the Chevalier Bunsen. Pusey left behind him a memorial of this sojourn in his presentation of a pedestal for the font in the German Chapel at Rome, with groups in relief by Thorwaldsen.3 On April 14, 1828, the Hon. Philip Pusey died, and his son came into possession of the family estate, though he did not commence residence at Pusey for two years afterwards. He appears at first to have interested himself in financial questions, for he wrote to his father-in-law, the Earl of Carnarvon, two letters on the Sinking Fund, and on Sir Robert Peel’s financial statement of February 15, 1828, wdiich were published as pamphlets in 1828. On the retirement of Mr. Henry Bonham early in 1830, he stood for Parliament at Rye, and was returned on March 1, 1830. His triumph was however short-lived, as on May 17 his election was cancelled at the instance of a Committee presided over by Lord Palmerston. The death of George IV. gave him another chance ; and in the first Parlia¬ ment of William IV. he was chosen (July 30, 1830) as one of the two members for Chippenham. During the Reform agita¬ tion he wrote a pamphlet entitled “ The New Constitution,” which was described by the £< Quarterly Review” (vol. xlv. p. 289) as “ one of the best both for reasoning and language that 1 Mr. Pusey was always tenderly attached to Lord Carnarvon, and the death at Pusey of his brother-in-law and early college friend in the autumn of 1849 was one of the great sorrows of Pusey’s life. 2 Her portrait appeared in one of the Books of Beauty of the time (Burke’s Portrait Gallery, 1833, ii. 116). 3 A woodcut of this pedestal appears on p. 373 of vol. i. of Bunsen’s Memoirs, and the text of the Latin and German inscriptions is given on p. 374.
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