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1038 MEMOIR OF TXIE
in the colony. The former resided at the borough of West
Chester which he represented for years in the Assembly; Oliver,
the youngest of the brothers, was most of his life Commander
of the forces of the colony, was also a member of the Assembly
and of the Council, Receiver-General of New York, and the
senior Loyalist Brigadier-General in commission in the war of
the Revolution.
After having attended the best schools the Colony then afforded,
James De Lancey was sent to England to prosecute his studies,
and entered as a Fellow-Commoner of Corpus Christi college in
the University of Cambridge, on the second of October, 1721.3
The Master of Corpus at that time was Dr. Samuel Bradford,
afterwards bishop of Carlisle, and next of Rochester. And
the gentleman whom young De Lancey chose as his Tutor, was
the learned Dr. Thomas Herring, who became successively
Bishop of Bangor, Archbishop of York, and Archbishop of
Canterbury.
This choice proved afterwards of great advantage to James
De Lancey, for the master and pupil kept up their intimacy by
letter long after the one became primate of all England the other
was in office in his native land; and in the various political
controversies in which the latter became afterwards engaged,
the archbishop's influence was always exerted in his behalf in
the councils of their Sovereign. How long Mr. De Lancey
remained at the University is uncertain, as he entered at an
advanced period and not at the beginning of the academic course.
Towards the close of 1725,he returned to New York.2 Admittted,
soon after his arrival, to the bar, he commenced the practice of
his profession in his native city, and soon rose to that eminence
to which his great natural abilities and sound and cultivated
judgment entitled him. He was early distinguished for the
active and responsible part which he took in political affairs.
Three years after his return, Gov. Montgomerie upon the death
of Mr. John Barbarie, recommended him as that gentleman's
successor in the Council of the Province. In his letter to the
Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations3 dated May 30th,
1 Lamb's Master's Hist. of Corp. Christ. Coll. Cambridge.
2 Lond. Doc..XXXI., 136. 3 Lond De. DocXXI., 16.