[1] Thomas Mozley, in a discursive chapter of his Reminiscences, speculated that the teaching of John Russell at Charterhouse had a negative effect on Boone, considered a brilliant student as a young man.
[1] The criticisms it articulated, from the students' point of view, of the university and its tuition, were well-informed, and reflected what some senior members took to be undergraduate concerns.
[4][5] In June 1822 the first number of The Council of Ten was published, a monthly periodical of which Boone was the editor and almost the sole contributor; it lasted a year.
[1] Appointed in 1834, he decided to sharpen the theological focus of the periodical, also cutting back on its function as journal of record for the clergy.
He advocated a broad coalition of Protestants, giving immediate offence (according to Edward Churton, in correspondence with Arthur Philip Perceval).
[7] Boone's attempt to remain above the fray in the row over Renn Dickson Hampden had earned him the partisan Newman's enmity.
[6] In a slow-motion coup, the "mild" liberal views associated with Boone were pushed out, despite the efforts of Henry Handley Norris of the controlling Hackney Phalanx representing High Church orthodoxy, and Churton.