Chapter III: Front Matter (3)

"Trinity Term Examinations, June 21st, 1765.

"1st Division--Mr. Stock, Examiner.

"Mr. Grattan, senior, 5 V.B. Certificate.

"Missed the Examination--Mr. Fitzgibbon.

"Easter and Trinity Terms--Senior Freshmen.

"Mr. Fitzgibbon, Th. for G.L.

"Mr. Grattan, senior, Th. for G.L.

[N.B.--"Th." means _thanks_, "Rem. Th." _remarkable thanks_, and
"G.L." _Greek_ and _Latin_.]

"Michaelmas Examinations, October 21st, 1765.

"Mr. Smyth, Examiner.

"Log. Math. Gr. Lat. Th.

"Mr. Fitzgibbon, V.B. in omnibus. Certificate.

"Mr. Grattan, senior, 4 V.B., 1 B. (in Th.)

"Michaelmas Term--Junior Sophisters.

"Mr. Fitzgibbon, Rem. Th. for G.L.

"1766.

"Christmas Examinations (generally called 'Hilary'), January 20th,
1766.

"Junior Sophisters--Mr. Law, Examiner.

"Log. Math. Astr. Phys. Eth. Gr. Lat. Th.

"Mr. Fitzgibbon, 5 V.B., optime in Ethics. Praemium.

"Mr. Grattan, senior, V.B. in omnibus.

"Easter Examinations, April 18th, 1766.

"Mr. Forsayeth, Examiner.

"Mr. Fitzgibbon, 5 V.B., 2 B.

"Mr. Grattan, senior, 2 V.B., 3 B. (2 blanks).

"Michaelmas Term Examinations (Degree Examination), October 20th,
1766.

"Mr. Forsayeth, Examiner.

"Candidates.

"Mr. Fitzgibbon, 5 V.B., 1 S.B., 2 B.

"Mr. Grattan, V.B. all through."

This table of judgments bears out Archbishop Magee's statement in his funeral sermon on Lord Clare, that Grattan was best in the first and Fitzgibbon in the closing years of their college course; while Grattan came to the front again at the Degree Examination. The table exhibits also the old system of awarding examination premiums in T.C.D.; and it shows the then curriculum in the Sophister year. It shows also that Fellow-Commoners obtained their B.A. degree on a shortened Academic course. Grattan entered in November, 1763, he answered for his degree in October, 1766, i.e., at the close of his Junior Sophister year--and he took his B.A. in Spring, 1767.

The Matriculation Book shows that Fitzgibbon was educated at Ball's famous school, under the old Round Tower, in Great Ship-street.[106] Grattan was educated in the same school along with Fitzgibbon, and was removed from it shortly before entrance, as his "Life" tells, and as the Matriculation Book also shows. Fitzgibbon was born in 1749, and, therefore, was only fourteen or fifteen years of age when he was collaring Grattan, who was three years his senior. Fitzgibbon was reared in his father's house,[107] in Stephen-street, and Grattan was reared within a few yards of him, in his father's house in Chancery-lane. In the same school, at the same time, were educated Macaulay Boyd, one of the reputed authors of Junius' Letters (son of Alexander Macaulay, who lived in Great Ship-street); Sir Samuel Bradstreet, the steady patriot, who procured "Habeas Corpus" for Ireland, and who lived in the same street; and John Forbes, who lived in the same street with the Fitzgibbons, was a thorough supporter of Grattan, a forward champion of Catholic claims, and the resolute and successful assailant of the Pension List.

The University conferred its LL.D. _Honoris Causa_ on Fitzgibbon--notwithstanding his anti-Hutchinson performances. It had no honorary degree for Grattan, and the loss is to its own muster-roll of fame. The name would have honoured and ennobled the Register.

NOTE E.

PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF STATE--CALLED ALSO PRINCIPAL SECRETARIES OF THE COUNCIL, AND KEEPERS OF THE PRIVY SIGNET OR PRIVY SEAL--FROM THE RESTORATION.

1661, Sir Paul Davys; 1678, Sir John Davys; 1690, Sir R. Southwell; 1702, Sir E. Southwell and his son, 1775, Thomas Carter (Master of the Rolls); 1760, Philip Tisdall (Attorney-General); 1777, John Hely Hutchinson (Provost, &c.); 1795, Lord Glentworth; 1796, Hon. Thomas Pelham; 1797, Robert Stewart (Castlereagh); 1801, Charles Abbott (afterwards Speaker of English House of Commons, and Lord Colchester.)

IRISH CHANCELLORS OF THE EXCHEQUER.

1761, William Yorke--_vice_ Anthony Malone; 1763, William Gerard Hamilton ("Single Speech"); 1784, John Foster (Speaker, &c.); 1785, Sir John Parnell; 1799, Isaac Corry; 1804, John Foster; 1806, Sir John Newport; 1807, John Foster; 1811, Wellesley Pole; 1812, William Fitzgerald; 1817, Nicholas Vansittart.

SPEAKERS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS SINCE THE RESTORATION.

1661, Sir Audley Mervin; 1692, Sir R. Levinge, H.M.'s Solicitor-General; 1695, Rt. Hon. Robert Rochfort, Attorney-General; 1703, Broderick Allen; 1710, Hon. John Forster; 1715, Rt. Hon. Wm. Connolly; 1729, Sir Ralph Gore; 1733, Hon. Henry Boyle (Lord Shannon); 1756, Rt. Hon. John Ponsonby; 1771, Rt. Hon. Edmund Sexton Pery (Lord Pery); 1785, Rt. Hon. John Foster.

CHIEF SECRETARIES TO LORD LIEUTENANTS.

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_Year._ | _Chief Secretary._ | _Lord Lieutenant._
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1703. | Sir E. Southwell (also | Duke of Ormonde.
| Principal Secretary of |
| State). |
| |
1707. | Joshua Dawson. | Lord Pembroke.
| |
1709. | George Bubb Doddington | Lord Wharton.
| (also Clerk of the Pells). |
| |
1711. | ---- Southwell. | Duke of Ormonde again.
| |
1713. | Sir John Stanley. | Duke of Shrewsbury.
| |
1724. | Thomas Clutterbuck. | Lord Carteret.
| |
1731. | Walter Carey. | Duke of Dorset.
| |
1738. | Edward Walpole, and | Duke of Devonshire.
| Nicholas Bonfoy. (This |
| was the Mr. Walpole who |
| had the escapade with the |
| notorious Letitia |
| Pilkington). |
| |
1740. | Henry Legg, and Nicholas | Do. Do.
| Bonfoy. |
| |
1742. | Lord Duncannon and | Do. Do.
| Nicholas Bonfoy, Esq. |
| |
1745. | B. Liddell (a Cornish | Lord Chesterfield.
| M.P.), and William Bristow.|
| |
1747. | ---- Wayte. | Lord Harrington.
| |
1751. | Lord G. Sackville (also | Duke of Dorset again.
| Clerk of the Council, and |
| Keeper of Phoenix Park). |
| |
1755. | Robert Maxwell. | Marquis of Hartington.
| |
1757. | Richard Rigby (also Master | Duke of Bedford.
| of the Rolls). |
| |
1761. | "Single Speech" Hamilton | Lord Halifax.
| (also Chancellor of the |
| Exchequer). |
| |
1763. | Hamilton again, and Lord | Lord Northumberland.
| Drogheda. |
| |
1765. | Edward Thurlow. | Lord Weymouth, who did
| | not come.
| |
1765. | Lord Beauchamp. | Lord Hertford.
| |
1766. | Lord Aug. Hervey. | Lord Bristol (did not come).
| |
1767. | Sir G., afterwards Lord | Marquis Townshend.
| McCartney (Governor of |
| Madras), and Lord Fk. |
| Campbell. |
| |
1772. | Sir John Blacquiere (also | Lord Hartcourt.
| Alnager, and afterwards |
| Lord Blacquiere). |
| |
1777. | Sir Rd. Heron (his | Lord Buckinghamshire.
| Excellency's land agent; |
| also Searcher, Packer, and |
| Gauger of the Port of |
| Cork). |
| |
1780. | W. Eden (afterwards Lord | Lord Carlisle.
| Auckland). |
| |
1782. | Colonel Fitzpatrick. | Duke of Portland.
| |
" | Lord Grenville (also Chief | Lord Temple, Buckingham.
| Remembrancer, with L4,000 |
| a year). |
| |
1783. | Thomas Pelham and William | Lord Northington.
| Wyndham. |
| |
1784. | Thomas Orde (afterwards | Duke of Rutland.
| Lord Bolton). |
| |
1787. | Alleyne Fitzherbert | Marquis of Buckingham again.
| (afterwards Lord St. |
| Helens). |
| |
1790. | Major Hobart (afterwards | Lord Westmoreland.
| Lord Buckinghamshire). |
| |
1795. | Syl. Douglas (Lord | Lord Fitzwilliam.
| Glenbervie). |
" | G. Damer (afterwards Lord | Lord Camden.
| Milton). T. Pelham |
| (afterwards Lord |
| Chichester). |
| |
1798. | Lord Castlereagh. | Lord Cornwallis.
| |
1801. | Charles Abbott (afterwards}|
| Speaker of English House }|
| of Commons, and Lord }|
| Colchester); W. Wickham; }|
| Sir Evan Napean }|
| (Treasurer of Irish }| Lord Hardwick.
| Exchequer); Nicholas }|
| Vansittart (afterwards }|
| Lord Bexley); Charles Long}|
| (afterwards Lord }|
| Farnborough). }|
| |
1801. | W. Elliott. | Duke of Bedford.
| |
1807. | Sir A. Wellesley, Robert }|
| Dundas (afterwards Lord }|
| Melville), Wellesley Pole }|
| (also Chancellor of the }| Duke of Richmond.
| Irish Exchequer, and }|
| afterwards Lord }|
| Maryborough). }|
| |
1812. | Sir R. Peel. | Lord Whitworth.
| |
1818. | Charles Grant (Lord | Lord Talbot.
| Glenleg). |
| |
1821. | Henry Goulburn. | Marquis Wellesley.
| |
1827. | W. Lamb (Lord Melbourne). | Do. Do.
| |
1828. | Lord F. Levenson Gower | Marquis of Anglesey and Duke
| (Lord Ellesmere). | of Northumberland.
| |
1830. | Sir H. Hardinge (afterwards| Marquis of Anglesey again.
| Lord Hardinge). |
| |
" | Edward Stanley (Lord | Do. Do.
| Derby). |
| |
1833. | Cam Hobhouse, E. J. | Marquis of Wellesley again.
| Littleton (Lord Hatherton.)|
| |
1834. | Sir H. Hardinge again. | Lord Haddington, and Lord
| | Mulgrave, and Lord Fortescue.
| |
" | G. F. W. Howard (Lord |
| Carlisle). |
| |
1841. | Lord Elliott (Earl St. | Lord De Grey.
| Germains). |
| |
1845. | Sir Thos. Freemantle. | Lord Heytesbury.
| |
1846. | Lord Lincoln. | Lord Bessborough.
| |
" | Henry Labouchere. | Do. Do.
| |
1847. | Sir William Somerville. | Lord Clarendon.
| |
1853. | Lord Naas. | Lord Eglinton.
| |
1854. | Sir John Young. | Lord St. Germains.
| |
1855. | Edward Horsman, and Hon. | Lord Carlisle.
| H. Herbert. |
| |
1858. | Lord Naas. | Lord Eglinton again.
| |
1860. | Edward Cardwell. | Lord Carlisle again.
| |
1862. | Sir R. Peel. | Lord Carlisle.
| |
1865. | Do. Do. | Lord Kimberley.
| |
1866. | Chichester Fortescue | Do. Do.
| (afterwards Lord |
| Carlingford). |
| |
1867. | Lord Naas (afterwards Lord | Duke of Abercorn.
| Mayo). |
| |
1868. | Chichester Fortescue again.| Lord Spencer.
| |
1871. | Marquis of Hartington. | Do. Do.
| |
1873. | Sir M. H. Beach. | Duke of Abercorn again.
| |
1879. | James Lowther. | Duke of Marlborough.
| |
1880. | W. E. Forster. | Lord Cowper.
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N.B.--It is instructive to note how very few of the here-mentioned eighty Chief Secretaries, the persons mainly entrusted with the government of the country for 180 years, belonged to the country, or had any real knowledge of its condition and requirements. If the other kingdoms of the earth were administered on this principle, the "_quam parva sapientia_" would excite no astonishment.