To the Editor of the Norru-Ciuwa Dany News"
Sin,—You will forgive me If T point four an inaccuracy inthe article published inthe "North-China Daily News" on the 23rd of April on "George of England".
'Edward Gibbon the historian was born at Putney on the 27th Apr 1787, and entered as a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, on the 3rd April, 1752. Tt was with' reference to Oxford and not Cambridge that he made his fam>us Femark about the deep gotiations of the Fellows casting the insobriety of the undergraduates into the shade. The author of Gibbon's life in the Dictionary of National Biography see Vol, page 1130) describes Oxford of the time as being "plunged port and prejudice".
The Edward Gibbon who went to 'Westminster and subsequently to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with William Law of the "Serious' Call Jas his tutor, was the historians father.
Hongkong, May 8. 7
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