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As he drove over
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In 1806 he was appointed assistant master at Eton, a post which he resigned after a year to become a resident tutor and Fellow at King's
College, Cambridge. It was there that he met and formed a lifelong friendship with the poet
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Memoir of the Rev. Francis
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sold for £277,350, a world record for a series of letters or a manuscript by a
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best wishes of his enemies, and proved one of the best friends that Eton ever had."
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