ABSTRACT
He exercised from the first a very powerful influence on me, by the magnetism of the good greatness of his personality and the true-hearted kindness which looked always through his reserve. All through those years he was laying the deep foundations of his vast theological knowledge, chiefly in the vacations, and (during term-time) by night. No man ever loitered so late in the Great Court that he did not see Lightfoot’s lamp burning in his study window; though no man either was so regularly present in morning Chapel at seven o’clock that he did not find Lightfoot always there with him. But to us he was not the divine, but the tutor whom we consulted about our questions and troubles, and our admirable lecturer in Herodotus, Euripides, and Aeschylus.1
