Connop

Pray, pray, pray write to me at once, — to the Connop

The American Senator 2004

In the preface it is stated that at three years old Connop read English so well that he was taught Latin, and at four read Greek with an ease and fluency that astonished all who heard him.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

Connop Thirlwall, the present bishop of St. David's, one of the translators of Niebuhr's 'History of Rome,' and author of the best history of Greece that had appeared before the publication of Mr. Grote's magnificent work, used to say of the fellows of Trinity, when he was tutor of that college, that they were the wittiest companions when drunk, that he had ever met with.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

His _Primitiae_ were published (by Samuel Tipper, London, 1808), when young Connop was but eleven years of age.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Connop asked leave to do the same, and produced to her astonishment the following: "How uncertain is life! for no man can tell in what hour he shall leave the world.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various