102 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [18S4 



mmy years the president of the South Warwickshire 

 Conservative Association. A special meeting of the 

 Council of this Association was held on February 0th 

 at Leamington, and was attended by Lord Willoughby 

 de Broke, Lord Brooke, M.P., Sir Charles Mordaunt, 

 the Hon. and Rev. W. E. Verney, Mr. Cove Jones, Arch- 

 deacon Holbech, and many others. Sir Charles Mordaunt, 

 who as vice-president occupied the chair, said they had 

 met that day under circumstances of a more distressing 

 kind than had ever occurred since the formation of the 

 South Warwickshire Conservative Association, and it was 

 with feelings of heart-felt sorrow that he moved the 

 f<dlowing resolution of condolence with the Marchioness of 

 Hertf(M-d : 



" That this council, representing the Conservative 

 party in South Warwickshire, hereby places on record its 

 deepest sense of the irreparable loss it has sustained by the 

 lamented death of its president, the Most Noble the 

 jMarquis of Hertford, G.C.B., whereby Her Majesty the 

 Queen loses an old and faithful servant, the Conservative 

 party a wise and able councillor, and the county of 

 Warwick a genial landlord, a devoted and hospitable friend, 

 and a true gentleman. And this meeting earnestly desires 

 t(j convey to the Marchioness of Hertford, the Earl of 

 Yarmouth, and the several members of the family, its very 

 sincere sympathy in their great affliction." 



In mourning the deeply lamented loss of the late 

 Marquis of Hertford, they mourned the loss of no ordinary 

 man, and when they expressed their sincere sympathy with 

 Lady Hertford, Lord Yarmouth, and all the members of 

 the family, they could not forget that, great and irreparable 

 as his loss must have been to them, it would be deeply felt 

 by every member of the Conservative party throughout 

 Warwickshire, to which he had been a tower of strength, 

 and it must therefore be considered as nothing- short of a 

 calamity. He (Sir Charles Mordaunt) felt sure that he 

 was expressing the feelings of all members of the associa- 

 tion when he added that they the more deeply deplored 



