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bis piety and exemplary conduct even whilst at school , and after * vrards at the University ^ gave them evcrv reason to believe that their expectations were wellfounded . The Huntingdon fa . * -
mily , and Lady Anne Hastings in particular , a lady eminent for lier piety and many other fine endowments , were his earliest patrons ; with them he
constantly spent the summer vacations , and his amiable manners , cheerful disposition and unaffected humility secured him that interest in their heaits , for which his literary progress and the high
character given of him by his tutors , had paved the way . Already in their imagination was he seated in the episcopal chair , and being introduced by Lord Huntingdon ,
on his leaving Cambridge , to Algernon Duke of Somerset as his domestic chaplain , no doubt remained of his future high destination * In this illustrious
house he soon became a great favourite ; was entrusted with paper ' s of the highest importance to the family , and considered by them in the light of a confidential friend . He was with them
at the time of the Dukes death , wh < ptm he affectionately attended in his last illness ; and after that event still continued to reside in the family as chaplain to the Duchess . This Lady , when Count .
ess of Hartford ^ was much celebrated for her wit and beauty , and although her brightest days were now passed , she had still the first characters at her table ,, whether for station , talents or literature , to all of whom her
chaplain was introduced , as a young man of the greatest hopes and expectations . And as a foretaste of the good fortune
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which awaited him , an old lady who was the intimate friend of the Duchess , gave him her right of alternate presentation to the valuable living of Chew Magna , in : of vvhich
however he never made the slightest pecuniary advantage . The occasion of his leaving the Duchess , was in order to accompany her grandson , the present Duke of Northumberland , then a youth at tton School , and whose con
stitution was very delicate , to the South of France , for the recovery of his health ; the family not daring to entrust him to the care of any one but Mr . Lindsey . They remained there two years ,
and the faithful tutor brought back his pupil in recovered health , and so much improved in his learning , that he took a higher form at Eton on his return , than any of his contemporaries who
had remained there the whole time . During this interval , the Duchess of Somerset died ,
leaving it in charge with her daughter , the late Duchess of Northumber * land , as her last injunction , tm
provide for Mr . Lindsey . On his return , the valuable living of Kirby Whiske , in the North Riding of this county , and in the gift of that family , happening to become vacant , JMr . Lindsey was inducted to it to hold for a relation of
their ' s of the name of Revelyr but the young gentleman dying before he was of proper age to be ordained , it was offered to Mr . L . in perpetuity . This otter Mr . L * would probably have accepted .
had not Lord Huntingdon made ft point of his taking the living of I'iddlctown , in Dorsetshire , which happened to be vacant at the tirac , and which was in his own gift ^ it was not so valuable as Kirby
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639 Memoir of the late Ret \ TA ^ aphilus Lindsctjy by Mrs . Cappe .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 638, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/2/
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