TO

SIR WILLIAM HEATHCOTE,

OF HURSLEY PARK, BART.,

M.P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,

AND TO

LADY HEATHCOTE,

This Volume

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I

7

9

45

51

52

INTRODUCTION

POEM BY “ J. F.” ON THE PROBABLE ORIGIN OF “THE CHRISTIAN YEAR”

MEMOIR OF THE POET

APPENDIX, WITH SUMMARY OF EVENTS

MONODY ON THE DEATH OF THE LATE Rev. JOHN KEBLE

LIST OF WORKS BY THE Rev. JOHN KEBLE

PETITION TO THE LORD OF THE MANOR OF MERDON,"—A POEM ON

“High FARMING”

FAIRFORD,—WHERE THE POET WAS BORN

OXFORD, -(ORIEL AND CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGES)

BURTHORPE AND EAST LEACH

His CURACIES

SOUTHROP

IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

COLN ST. ALDWYN's

55

61

77

85

89

93

IOI

107

BISLEY (HIS BROTHER'S CHURCH),—WHERE THE POET WAS MARRIED

HURSLEY,—OF WHICH HE WAS VICAR FOR THIRTY YEARS .

OTTERBOURNE, OF WHICH HE WAS RECTOR FOR THE SAME PERIOD

AMPFIELD (THE DISTRICT PARISH TAKEN FROM HURSLEY),—OF WHICH

127

HE WAS PATRON

137

147

Pitt,--HIS OUTLYING CHAPELKY

BOURNEMOUTH,—WHERE HE DIED

149
151

165

THE BOURNEMOUTH MEMORIAL WINDOW

THE GRAVES OF MR. AND MRS. KEBLE IN HURSLEY CHURCHYARD

THE MEMORIAL COLLEGE TO BE BUILT AT OXFORD

AUTHORITIES

CONCLUSION

INDEX

SUPPLEMENT

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“Spirits of Heaven
Be with thee and around thee, while from gall
of this world's bitterness thy gentle soul
Shall gather sweetness.”

(Thoughts in Past Years, p. 98.)