Lady Victoria Campbell

CHILDHOOD AND HOME 3
the birds settled everything. All doubts and diffi-
culties vanished before the rummaging of the starlings,
the darting of the flycatchers, and the agile climbing
of the nuthatches. Under such stimulus from birds
it seemed quite a subordinate consideration that the
lawn would be perfect for the children, and perfect
too for breakfast parties. I returned to town,
and instructed my agent at once to purchase Bedford
Lodge."
Soon after the christening of Lady Victoria the
family moved to Campden Hill, and the life there
was begun which was only to end with the death
of the Duke in 1900, when the house passed back
into the hands of Sir Walter Phillimore.
In 1854 Dr. Cumming, of Crown Court Church,
was at the height of his great fame. His was then the
principal church representing in London the Church of
Scotland. The Disruption had carried with it the
church built in Regent Square for Edward Irving
and the other Scottish churches.
If Dr. Cumming was wrong in his confident prophecy
and advice to the Government, and tradition says he
was one of those who fortified the deluded Lord
Advocate with the prediction that " only a very few
would come out," he at least kept Crown Court firmly
attached to the National Church; and when St.
George's, in Edinburgh, with other large churches
left vacant by the Disruption, gave him a call to
come and strengthen the things which remained, he
refused to leave the church and the flock which
followed his ministry in London.