He is a graduate of Cambridge University and a prizeman of Clare College.

But to return to the little shoemaker.
"After returning home from Llanrwst, he disburthened his heart to his mother, and told her that shoemaking, which until now he had pursued with extraordinary zest, could no longer interest him.

His mother, who was equal to the emergency, sent the boy to a teacher of the old school, who had himself worked his way from the plough.

After the exercise of considerable diplomacy, an arrangement was arrived at whereby the youth was to go to school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and make shoes during the remaining days of the week.

This suited him admirably.