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GAilts Obituary, 
Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of 
Beaufort, died April 30th, 1899, aged 75, at Stoke House, Stoke 
Gifford, Bristol. Buried at Badminton. Born Feb. 1st, 1824. Educated 
at Eton. He served in the lst Life Guards, and afterwards in the 7th 
Hussars, retiring in 1861 with the rank of Lt.-Col. Aide-de-Camp to 
the Duke of Wellington, 1842—1852, and to Viscount Hardinge afterwards. 
On leaving the army he became Commandant of the Gloucestershire 
Yeomanry. M.P. for East Gloucestershire 1846—1853; and twice Master 
of the Horse. Married, 1845, Lady Georgiana Curzon, d. of the 1st Earl 
Howe, who with four sons, surviveshim. He was a strong Conservative ; 
but it was as a sportsman that he was so widely known. The Devizes 
Gazette, May 4th, 1899, in a long and very full obituary notice, says :— 
“It is not too much to say that with the Duke of Beaufort the greatest 
living authority upon the Chase, the Turf, and the Road, disappears from 
the West End. Of the ‘ Badminton Library’ he was not only the editor, 
but, with the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, the life and soul. He was 
himself the author of the volume on ‘ Driving,’ part author of that on 
‘Hunting,’ and a contributor to ‘Riding, . . . He was justly 
described as one of the best whips that ever drove a team of four horses.” 
For forty years he hunted the Badminton country until the pack was 
made over, with Badminton itself, to the Marquis of Worcester, in 1895. 
Generous and kind-hearted, he was amazingly popular, both in 
Gloucestershire and in North Wilts—where for more than a generation 
‘‘The Duke” was looked on as the personification of fox-hunting. 
An article on him as huntsman appeared in the Bristol Times and Mirror. 
Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Bart., died June 11th, 1899, aged 90. 
Buried at Breamore, Hants, Born April 2nd, 1809 (son of Sir Charles 
and Maria, d. of John Buller, of Morval, Co. Cornwall). Educated at 
Eton and Christ Church, Oxon. Succeeded to title and married, 1854, 
Katherine Jane, d. of Henry Parr Hamilton, D.D., Dean of Salisbury. 
B.A., Oxon, 1829; M.A., 1835. Fellow of All Souls. J.P. and D.L. 
for Wilts and Hants. High Sheriff of Hants, 1868. Lt.-Col. of South 
Hants Militia, 1867—1870. Elective Verderer of New Forest from 1877. 
He leaves three sons—Edward Henry, M.P. for Salisbury, 1886—1897, 
who succeeds to the title; Major Charles Westrow; Hamilton; and 
two daughters—Mrs. Crighton and the Hon. Mrs. D. Pleydell-Bouverie. 
A notable yachtsman in early life. His interests lay principally in 
agriculture and Church and charity. A strong Conservative himself he 
took but little part in politics—but in everything which had to do with 
agriculture, in every movement connected with Church work or 
