Excerpt from A Monograph of the Windsor Family: With a Full Account of the Rejoicings on the Coming of Age of Robert George Windsor-Clive, Lord Windsor, 27th August, 1878

This little volume owes its existence to the request of numerous well wishers and tenants of Lord Windsor, who desire to possess, in a more compact and durable form than a newspaper, some account of the Windsor Family, and of the rejoicings by which the coming of age of his Lordship, on the 27th of August last, was celebrated.

As the last of these commemorative gatherings was not held until the 19th of October, and as it was desirable the celebration rejoicings should be all given, a slight but unavoidable delay has occurred in the publication of the volume.

Some doubt has been entertained by the writer as to the form the following "Monograph of the Windsor Family" should assume. Clio, the grave and stately Muse who presides over history, would insist that the biography - which is history analysed - of an ancient family, the members of which have nobly played their part in the grand national drama of the past, ought to be written in a grave historical style, and should illustrate the famous maxim that biography, even more than history, is "philosophy teaching by examples."

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