It also confirms the gift of Mr. Hilton's and Mr. Northcote's pictures to the new church at Pimlico, built by Mr. Hakewill, and to the chapel built by Mr. Cockerell, in the upper part of Regent-street.

Northcote, according to Hazlitt, said of this character with some truth, that 'it was like one of Kneller's portraitsit would do for anybody.'

Northcote's Conversations, p.86. See post, p.98.

Hazlitt's Conversations of Northcote, p. 41.

Northcote, in quoting this letter, says that 'Sir Joshua's influence in the Academy was not always answerable to his desire.

"Those who are of some importance everywhere else," he said, "find themselves nobody when they come to the Academy."' Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 145.

Conversations of Northcote, p. 80.

Northcote's Reynolds ii.137.

According to Northcote, Reynolds said of his sister's oil-paintings, 'they made other people laugh and him cry.'

'She generally,' Northcote adds, 'did them by stealth.'

[on a picture],' says Northcote, 'except in the instance of Mrs. Siddons's portrait as the Tragic Muse, when he wrote his name upon the hem of her garment.

"I could not lose," he said, "the honour this opportunity offered to me for my name going down to posterity on the hem of your garment."' Northcote's Reynolds, i. 246.

Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 174.

The late William Cookworthy, the late John Prideaux, and James Fox, all of the society of the Quakers, and Mr. George Leach, Samuel Northcote and John Saunders, had a principal share in forming it.

In the meantime Sir Charles Trevelyan, a distinguished Indian Civilian who had married Macaulay's sister, had been asked to inquire, with the help of Sir Stafford Northcote, into the method of appointment in the Home Civil Service.

NORTHCOTE, James, Boswell's self-reproach, v. 129, i 1; Goldsmith and Cross-Readings, iv. 322, n. 2; Goldsmith on entering a room, i. 413, n. 2; Johnson's character of Mudge, iv. 77, n. 1; Johnson's interview with George III, ii. 42, n. 2; Lowe the painter, iv.

78, 332, 337; Northcote's description of them, iii. 375, n. 2; iv.

RUSKIN, Mr. John, anecdote of Northcote, i. 377, n. 1; Bibliotheca Pastorum, iii. 94, n. 2; New Town of Edinburgh, v. 68, n. 1.

" Northcote: Christianity and Sex Problems, p. 326.

Northcote, the painter, said, that, in observing an inferior picture, he always felt his spirits droop, with the suspicion that perhaps he deceived himself and his own paintings were no better; but the works of the mighty masters always gave him renewed strength, in the hope that perhaps his own had in their smaller way something of the same divine quality.

Sir William Fraser's Disraeli is a very different figure from Sir Stafford Northcote's.

Beyond apparently imposing upon Sir Stafford Northcote, Disraeli himself never made any vain pretensions to be devoted to pursuits for which he did not care a rap.

Northumberland, collected by M.C. Balfour and edited by Northcote W. Thomas (London, 1904), p. 79.

Orkney and Shetland Islands, collected by G.F. Black and edited by Northcote W. Thomas (London, 1903), pp. 203 sq.

An enquiry from Northcote ought to have led him to conclude otherwise, for Northcote, who had the best means of knowing, says, "Because one of those figures was a lean figure, (alluding to the subordinate ones introduced,) and the other a fat one, people of lively imaginations pleased themselves with finding in them the portraits of Voltaire and Hume.