As the years went on Herbert worked hard and became a gently good, as well as a learned man, and in time he was given the post of
Public Orator at the University.
Appointed
Public Orator, or showman, of his university, Cambridge, he spent some years in enjoying the somewhat trifling elegancies of life and in truckling to the great.
"This passion always came to the fore when he performed as
public orator at the university's graduation ceremonies and special events.
"She was impassioned, eloquent, a better
public orator than anyone on the stage.
But he never had that fire in the belly as a
public orator that Filipinos look for in a candidate.
"Richard's posthumous reputation has been less than glorious,'' Gordon Campbell, the University of Leicester's
public orator, noted with understatement about a man whose name was long a byword for villainy.
He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and as the university's
public orator.
AS
PUBLIC orator at John Moores University, Prof Frank Sanderson must have inaugurated the ascent from undergraduate to graduate of tens of thousands of students.
A post he cherished was being
Public Orator at Sheffield, which meant he had to devise and deliver official speeches, such as the orations at honorary graduation ceremonies.
Making the honour, the University Of Liverpool's Pro-Vice Chancellor and
Public Orator, Professor Kelvin Everest said: "Jon Snow is the embodiment of responsible serious journalism in an age of hi-tech communications and ever-accelerating change in the pace of life.