BX9225 T7506 1889

TO HER MAJESTY

THE

QUEEN.

MADAM,

Since the completion of the fifty years during which your Majesty has held the chief place in your kingdoms, I think the writers and thinkers of that period may venture more and more to feel a certain bond between themselves and their Queen, upon whose gracious name their humbler names will still be attendant, while history prolongs the record of the great Victorian age. In this point of view, as well as by your gracious permission, I am encouraged to offer to your Majesty the following simple record of one of the most faithful among the many faithful subjects and respectful friends whom your Majesty's clear-sighted appreciation and kindness have gathered round the steps of the throne in every rank of life. Though it is difficult to predict what place the judgment of posterity may allot to him in the literary history of the time, no one who knows Scotland can doubt the great influence wielded by Principal Tulloch, especially in the affairs of the Church and in the interests of National Education, always with a view to a larger charity, and a

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more complete intellectual development. Your Majesty's neverfailing interest and sympathy in such efforts were a support and encouragement to him throughout the most important part of his career; and no one interested in him can ever forget the Royal words which honoured his memory, or the generous and gracious bounty in which your Majesty's kind thoughts found expression. I venture also to believe that this memorial of a faithful servant of his country and Queen will not be less acceptable to your Majesty, from the fact that it is the story not of one life only, but of two wedded and loyal lives, the chronicle of a perfect and unbroken union.

NOTE.

IN making my acknowledgments for the help afforded me in preparing this Memoir, I must mention first the chief and most effectual aid of all, given by one who has herself become partially its subject as well as its leading authority, Mrs Tulloch, who since the beginning of the work has rejoined the husband to whom her life had been devoted. From her I received the incalculable help of a series of letters extending over a space of nearly forty years, and full of all the thoughts, plans, and wishes of the Principal's life. I have to thank the other members of the family, and particularly the Rev. W. W. Tulloch, Mrs Frank Tarver, and Miss Tulloch, for the complete facilities afforded me, and for many recollections and elucidations of obscure incidents and movements. The same thanks are due to the Rev. Dr Dickson, the friend of the Principal's youth as well as of his mature years, and the Rev. Dr Story, both of Glasgow University, for the many letters addressed to them; and also for the revision which both these gentlerien have given to my work, along with explanations of the state of Scotch affairs, very necessary to its completeness. Among others who have given similar aid, Professor Baynes of St Andrews, who survived his friend and associate only a short

time, and the Rev. Dr Phin of Edinburgh, are both beyond the reach of thanks: but I owe my warmest acknowledgments to Mrs Baynes and to Mrs Smith, the wife of the late Rev. W. Smith of North Leith, who intrusted me with the letters to her husband—a long and interesting series; and also to the Rev. Dr Mitchell of St Andrews, to Professor Knight of St Andrews, and to many young clergymen, students at St Mary's, from whom I have received admirable and touching recollections of their beloved teacher, unfortunately too long to publish. If I have omitted any name, I must beg that friend to pardon the unintentional neglect. I am specially indebted to Dr Dickson, Dr Mitchell, Dr Story, the Rev. A. K. H. Boyd of St Andrews, and Professor Knight, for much information of an interesting kind. By these friends, and by all who loved and liked Principal Tulloch, I hope this biography will be accepted as a faithful record: which is all that is needed to do honour to the memory of a man whose like, as we all feel, we have little expectation of meeting again.

AT ST ANDREWS, September 25, 1888.

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