Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 159: January and April, 1885
Margaret, was the only daughter of Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, who commanded the Revenge in the battle of Trafalgar, and was specially commended for his bravery in action. Thus deriving his being from heroic ancestry on either side, the subject of the present Memoir might have been ex pected to add lustre to the annals of his country's Army or N av but his triumphs were destined to be won in other fiel s. The warfare to which he consecrated his powers was intellec tual, - a perpetual conflict on behalf of god's Truth with the growing infidelity of the age. His mother (who survived him, for she lived till 1877, by which time she had attained the age of is described as a woman of great strength of character, clearness of understanding, - quickness of judgment. The ex traordinary memory, firm will, and strong affections, for which the future Dean of St. Paul's was distinguished, were charac teristic of both his parents, but especially of his mother. From the Rector of Cosgrove he obtained his first lessons in the use of language. He learned from his father (he said) never to use a word of two syllables where a word of one would do.'
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