The former Governor, Colonel Sorrell, was a man of genial temperament, but little strength of character.

In social life Mr. Johnson is looked upon as a man of genial temperament, kindly disposition, and strong social qualities.

It was an episode that illustrated the manner in which an occasion of such consequence can warp even a normally genial temperament.

When I first knew him at Oxford he was a strong man physically as well as mentally; open-hearted, and of a merry and genial temperament.