"G. A. S." and Mr Thos. Holloway.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 43, 29 March 1884, Page 5

"G. A. S." and Mr Thos. Holloway.

But there is another name— well, not of fame, but of notoriety— which in my mind will always be associated with the once car/ louyhi of Kensington Gore. It is that of the recent Mr Thomas Holloway (or Brown), of whom and of whose millions we have heard so much. I knew the "Professor," slightly between 30 and 40 years ago ; and always found him " a good sort of man. That he should have died so immensely wealthy is all the more noticeable when it is remembered that in his early business transactions he was certainly not fortunate. One Sunday " Professor " Holloway came. As I have said, I have some slight knowledge of him. Presently arrived Mr Thackeray, arm-in-arm with, I think, John Leech ; and the "Professor" whispered to me how supremely happy he would be it I would present him to the author of "Vanity Fair. " I hesitated at first ; but, fancying I discerned a benevolent twinkle beneath the great man's spectacles, 1 took heart of grace, and did the "Professor's" bidding. It is no secret to those who really knew the illustrious William Makepiece that he could say upon occasion things which made yon intensely uncomfortable. Thus, when (with Mr Thackeray's permission) I had gone through the ceremony of introduction, he made the "Professor" a very low and stiff bow, and said—" I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." Tableau. —G. A. Sala, in " Illustrated London News."