Sewell, afterwards founder and first Warden of Radley, was a didactic Churchman, always talking or writing, seldom thinking, who contributed popular articles to The Quarterly Review.

The editor, Lockhart, knew their value well enough.

They tell one nothing, he said, they mean nothing, they are nothing, but they go down like bottled velvet.
Sewell's eccentricities could not hurt Froude.

But more serious consequences followed.

The Governing Body of Exeter, the Rector* and Fellows, called upon him to resign his Fellowship.