He was soon offered, and accepted, a tutorship in Ireland.

His pupils father, Mr.Cleaver, was rector of Delgany in the county of Wicklow.

Mr.
Cleaver was a dignified, stately clergyman of the Evangelical school.

Froude had been taught by his brother at home, and by his friends at Oxford, to despise Evangelicals as silly, ignorant, ridiculous persons.

He saw in Mr.Cleaver the perfect type of a Christian gentleman, cultivated, pious, and well bred.