Poor Hartley…

Note: using ‘son’ rather than ‘child’ was not intended to be sexist, but merely reflect the times referred to… in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, there wasn’t so much pressure on the daughters of important men (and they were mostly, though not exclusively men at the time) to follow in their parents’ footsteps to greatness.

Apropos of the season, I should note that Jesus seemed to handle the pressure okay…