[The subjoined extract from the letter of a leading member of Trinity College explains Macaulay's indignation.

"Thirlwall published a pamphlet in 1834, on the admission of Dissenters to the University.

The result was that he was either deprived of his Assistant Tutorship or had to give it up.

Thirlwall left Cambridge soon afterwards.

I suppose that, if he had remained, he would have been very possibly Wordsworth's successor in the Mastership."] There would be some chance for the Church, if we had more Churchmen of the same breed, worthy successors of Leighton and Tillotson.
From one Trinity Fellow I pass to another.