The Parting of Friends: the Wilberforces and Henry Manning / David Newsome

 

"We see the band of friends, cheerful, united, sanguine, starting together on life's path. Pass sixty years, we check the list, to find a scattered remant of survivors, telling sadly of havoc wrought in their train by the storms of life, themselves too often alienated at its close. But the record of their deeds survives". William Tuckwell, Reminiscences of Oxford, 1900