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that he accompanied Thomas, Earl of Arundel (a name which no scholar, no lover of art can hear unmoved), in the year 1636, during the nine months of his special embassy to Vienna.[1]
Our further concern with Harvey is with his work; his discoveries, with the reasons why we so venerate his memory, why, in making mention of the benefactors of this College, it is my duty impressed on me not only, Sir, by your commands, but by the grateful sense of the past two centuries, to name Harvey first, and separated by a long interval from those whose merit yet most nearly approaches his.
I have said that the work of the previous
- ↑ Son of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, and of Ann Dacres, his wife, and grandson of that Duke of Norfolk who was executed on June 2nd, 1572, for complicity in the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots. He deserves to be remembered, first, for his parents’ virtues, to which the late Duke of Norfolk raised a touching monument by the publication of the contemporary lives of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, and Anne Dacres, his wife, 8 vo. London, 1857; and second, for his own devotion to art, which has made his name a household word with all art-lovers everywhere. See sketch of his life in Collins’s Peerage, by Brydges, 8 vo. 1812, vol. i. p. 112–125.
the funeral of King Charles I. at Windsor, and died in 1655. See Playfair’s ‘British Family Antiquities,’ vol. iii.
