Excerpt from Recollections and Suggestions, 1813-1873 It may interest some persons to learn what educa tion I had received before I entered Parliament. That education was in part broken and disturbed. After being at a private school at Sunbury, I went to West minster, but was so ill there that, by the care and affection of my step-mother the Duchess of Bedford, my father was persuaded to remove me, and I was sent with several young men of riper age to receive private tuition from the Rev. Mr. Smith, of Woodnesbury, in Kent; There I formed relations of friendship with the Earl of Clare, the late Duke of Leinster, his brother Lord William Fitzgerald, and others. But I had not remained there long, when Lord and Lady Holland proposed that I should accompany them on a journey to Spain in the troubled year 1808. When I returned from Spain in 1810 I asked my father to allow me to go to the University of Cambridge. But he 'told me that in his Opinion there was nothing to be learnt at English Universities, and procured for me admission to the house of Professor Playfair, at Edinburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.