CHAPTER VII 



HARROW AND CAMBRIDGE 



From Elstree my brother Maunsell naturally gravitated to 

 Harrow, under the reign of Dr. Butler, following his elder 

 brother, who had gone there about a year earlier. Maunsell 

 brought with him from his first school at Elstreefa well-earned 

 reputation for skill at most games, and a real love of sport, 

 that soon made him immensely popular with his schoolfellows 

 at Harrow, and in a very short time proved in this wider field 

 of action that he was just as good as he had been represented. 

 Indeed, there is no doubt he speedily established a wide and a 

 sound reputation as an all-round coming sportsman. When I 

 had the pleasure some time ago of meeting one of his 

 Harrow schoolfellows, the late Earl of Clarendon, who has 

 very kindly contributed an impression of my brother to this 

 book, he said to me, " I believe your brother was the only 

 schoolboy ever known who possessed a race-horse of his own." 

 This undoubtedly is a fact, although we thought nothing of it 

 at the time, having been accustomed to owning ponies, and 

 afterwards horses, from our childhood upwards, so that the fact 

 of one of us owning a race-horse seemed quite an ordinary 

 matter. The animal, Lord Clarendon alluded to, was the grand 

 thoroughbred brown mare Vienna, which was ridden for my 

 brother by one of our Limber friends and boon companions, 

 George Nelson, who won a steeplechase plate value ^"ioo on 



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