Excerpt from Sir William Gregory, K. C. M. G: Formerly Member of Parliament and Sometime Governor of Ceylon; An Autobiography The following memoirs were written during the last few years of my husband's life, from 1884 to 1891. They were at first intended only for me and our boy, but he afterwards showed them in part to one or two old and dear friends. He never spoke of their publication, and probably would not have thought them worth bringing before the outer world. I think differently, and my hope in publishing them is that his name, which was known, and kindly known, in many countries beside his own, may be kept alive a little longer, and that for his sake a friendly hand may sometimes in the future be held out to his boy. I have, of course, left out a good deal of what he had written. Some detailed accounts of visits to Tunis and Egypt, when those countries were less in the beaten track than now, are no longer of general interest. In this age of hurry, when there are too many Parliamentary speeches to be read from day to day, it would have been useless to print those of half a century ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.