Crewe, Mr.

The inefficient old curate at Milby. "There was almost always something funny about old Mr. Crewe. His brown wig was hardly ever put on quite right, and he had a way of raising his voice for three or four words, and lowering it againt to a mumble… It was clear he must be a learned man, for he had once had a large private school in connection with the grammar school, and had even numbered a young nobleman or two among his pupils. The fact that he read nothing at all now, and that his mind seemed absorbed in the commonest matters, was doubtless due to his having exhausted the resources of erudition earlier in life." In the lists of originals prepared in Nuneaton after the publication of Scenes of Clerical Life, the prototype of Mr. Crewe was the Rev. Hugh Hughes, (d. 1830), for 52 years curate of Nuneaton and for 30 years head master of the Grammar School. He married Sarah Warden.

<em>Janet's Repentance</em>

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