Dr Thorneycroft Huxtable M.A., Ph.D., etc.

Founder and principal of the Priory School in the north of England. The Priory is, without exception, the best and most select preparatory school in England.
His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself — so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity. And yet his first action, when the door had closed behind him, was to stagger against the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearthrug.