Note 27 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition · Edition 2
There is a tablet on the wall of the Old Schools which bears the following inscription:—Near this spot Anthony Ashley Cooper Afterwards the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. While yet a boy in Harrow School Saw with shame and indignation The pauper's funeral Which helped to awaken his lifelong Devotion to the service of the poor And the oppressed.