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only, but all the men I knew who got intimate with 

 Hodson liked him, and did not believe the many 

 stories to his prejudice — which by others, because 

 of his very reputation, were too often carelessly 

 repeated, and became, however unintentionally, 

 magnified in the repetition. . . . 



"And I can say this much, that there was 

 nothing apparently mean or low about him. With 

 all his faults and his arbitrary character, he was a 

 high-minded man, fearlessly outspoken in his judg- 

 ment of many who were only too likely to have his 

 words brought back to them."^ 



" His faults we have already seen," sums up the 

 able writer in ' Blackwood's Magazine ' for March 

 1899; "they were enumerated years before his 

 death by his best friend, Henry Lawrence. But it 

 was to his good points, just those so well set forth 

 by his old subaltern, that he owed the lifelong 

 friendship of such men as Robert Napier, Robert 

 Montgomery, and Thomas Seaton ; and to these 

 characteristics too it was that he owed the love and 

 the admiration of his men. As in the corps of Guides, 

 so in his own regiment of Horse he was the object 

 not only of respect but of veneration. To this day 

 the few remaining of those who served under him, 

 and the sons of those who served under him, speak 

 of him by the title given him by the old King of 

 Delhi — Hodson Sahib Bahadur. His corps of Horse 

 has long since been split up into the 9th and 10th 

 regiments of Bensral Lancers, and the latter has been 

 honoured by receiving the title of Duke of Cam- 

 bridge's Own ; but no matter how they may be 

 officially known, or what titles may be given them, 



1 MS. letter from Eev. C. Sloggett. 



