The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, volume 1
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'I again brought forward my motion with regard to unreformed corporations, with fresh illustrations and new jokes, and the second edition was voted as popular as the first. Corfe Castle, with the Lord High Admiral of the Isle of Purbeck, and a Corporation consisting of one person, was a gem. Sir John Holker, who had to deal with the question for the Government, and who prepared the Royal Commission which sat to consider it in consequence of my motions, laid down some law for my information,... which I doubted, and thereon showed to Harcourt, who said: "You will find the Attorney-General's law as bad as might be expected. " Holker was personally popular. But he certainly, though a great winner of verdicts from juries, was one of the dullest men who ever addressed the House of Commons. ' Although Sir Charles was active and, generally speaking, successful duringthis session, on two points he found himself without support. One was hisopposition to the principle of the Bills dealing with the University ofOxford and the University of Cambridge, on both of which he "took a highlyConservative tone without securing any assistance from Conservativeopinion.
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