The Life of a Great Sportsman 



"If every one had been like you a Whip's Office would 

 be an easy one. (W. H. Walrond.") 



And from another very influential man, written from the 

 House of Commons, came this note : — " I am sorry from the 

 bottom of my heart for the loss of such a good man, and just 

 the man we now wanted to do something for Agriculture. He 

 would have been such a support to Walter Long and Chaplin." 



From Mr. Walter Long himself came the following : — 



"8/8/95. 

 11 My dear Maunsell, — I can't think how the people of 

 Brigg have been induced to stultify themselves. We shall all 

 miss you immensely, and nobody more than I. It is disgusting 

 to think we shall not see you on Monday. (Signed) Walter 

 Long." 



From Mr. Richard Middleton, who wrote from the Con- 

 servative Central Office, Westminster : — " I can't tell you how 

 grieved I was at your not carrying the seat, especially after 

 the splendid fight you have made for our cause in that con- 

 stituency. (Signed) Richard W. Middleton." 



And these are but a few of the many tributes I have found 

 in his papers as to my brother's estimated political value in 

 the minds of men who not only knew what they were talking 

 about, but were the practical leaders and mainstays of the 

 Conservative party. 



As, however, will have been gathered from the foregoing 

 letters, my brother's victory at Brigg was but a short-lived 

 triumph, for although he certainly contributed by that well-fought 

 fight to bring the Liberal Government, which was under Lord 

 Rosebery's guidance at that time on Mr. Gladstone's retire- 

 ment in 1894, to an end, he was defeated in July, 1895 ; his 



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