Susanna Wesley

216 SUSANNA WESLEY.
on the " 7th, saying, Sister Sukey was in huge
agonies for five days, and then died in full assurance
of faith. Some of her last words when she had been
speechless for some time were ' Jesus is here, Heaven
is love !
' "
Mrs. Gaunt's son by her first marriage was named
Pierre after his father, and educated at Kingswood, at
the great school founded by the Wesleys near Bristol.
He Anglicised his Christian name into Peter and
dropped the particle before his surname. He went
into the Church and became head-master of the Lutterworth
Grammar School, and curate and assistant
to
Mr. Johnson, who, in those days of pluralities, was
rector of Lutterworth and vicar of Claybrook. At the
latter place Mr. Johnson had a very nice house and
grounds, and received pupils, among whom was the
late Lord Macaulay. Mr. Lievre married a Miss
Sturges and reared six children. William, the last of
them, died about twenty years ago at Bruntingthorpe,
in Leicestershire, where he was probably master of
one of those small endowed schools which have now
either been remodelled by
the Commissioners or absorbed
by
other educational institutions. He was a
with the soul and much of the
retiring, studious man,
felicitous skill in diction of the true poet and had his
;
lot been cast in literary circles he would no doubt
have made a name and a niche for himself. As it
was, he was laughed at by his family for his rhyming
propensities, and degenerated into the fecklessuess often
seen in those who have missed their true vocation.
The Derbyshire and Leicestershire papers, however,
gladly accepted his verses for their Poet's Corners.
Several of them are very pretty, and, were they reprinted,
would find favour with many.