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Excerpt from Robert Blatchford: The Sketch of a Personality; An Estimate of Some Achievements
Louisa Blatchford was, for all psychologicalpurposes, Robert's only parent. Mr.iblatch ford himself knows little of his father He was a strolling actor and an ardent Tory, who christened his second and last-born son Robert Peel Glanville, doubtless believing that names like these would form an attractive substitute for a patrimony. There is a story current in the Blatchford family concerning little Robert's christening (john Blatchford was a great Churchman). When the baptismal party had arrived at the font and the officiating clergymanihad learnt that the infant in his arms was to be' christened Robert Peel, he said, to the father: After the great statesman? And on receiving an affirmative reply, he expressed the hope that little Robert would grow up to be as clever a man. Ah, said John Blatchford, I hope he willbe'half as clever. It is to be hoped that the shade of John Blatchford, supposing that the long-spent spirit concerns itself with earthly or democratic matters, is satisfied with the answer which has been vouchsafed to his pious wish.
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