born, a.d. 1767. died, a.d. 1849.

IN the amusing chronicles of the house of Edgeworth there are many curious anecdotes recorded, which vindicate the title of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his illustrious daughter to the combined genius and eccentricities with which they have been accredited. The lives and labours of both father and daughter are so blended and intertwined that their names and memories cannot be separated. They were connected by ties stronger than those of blood—by community of objects, habits, affections, and modes of thought. He had very plausible claims to be considered her literary parent. He divined the natural bent of her genius, and aided, without forcing, its development. He gave her the most bracing kind of education, moral and intellectual; the groundwork being scrupulous accuracy of statement, patient observation, self-knowledge, and self-respect. From her early girlhood he was her companion and friend. He read with her, wrote with her, came before an applauding public hand-in-hand with her, and, finally, he traded upon her popularity. In London literary society the two Irish lions—father and daughter—roared so loudly that Lord Byron proposed the formation of a Society for the Suppression of Edgeworth. But Richard Lovell Edgeworth was irrepressible; and, although a bore of the first magnitude, was a genial, clever, and kind-hearted Irishman.