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sailed that wook on Thursday, December 11th, for Bombay in the Mcdabar, 

 and joined tlie 7th Hussars at Secuudcrabad. He was di'owned on June 25tli, 

 1893, in the Poona River, in company with Lieutenants Crawley and Sutton, 

 his brother officers. Their boat was carried over the weir, and none of them 

 reappeared alive. The bodies of Crawley and my dear son were recovered, 

 and they were buried at Poona on the 28tli June. A memorial service was 

 held in Kineton Church at the same hour, which was largely attended. The 

 bodies of all throe were eventually recovered, and they rest side by side in the 

 cemetery at Poona. 



We scarcely know wliat to add to the above toucLing 

 memorial of one who promised to be one of the finest riders 

 of the age — good seat, fine hands, and plenty of courage 

 and patience, too — he had all the requisites of a first-rate 

 horseman. Always happy and unselfish, he was most 

 popular in Warwickshire, and with his regiment. When 

 he went to India he was elected to carry the horn of the 

 regimental hounds, which soon included a draft his father 

 sent him out from Kineton. Of tliese he took the greatest 

 care, inventing a bullock-drawn hound van to take them 

 to the meets. No brighter, cheerier young soldier ever 

 buckled on a sword. 



" 'Ov OL 0cot (J)lXov(tlv aTroOi'y](rKtL vc'os." 



Mena7ider apud Stob. Flor. cxx. 8. 



From the Fieki .- 



Tlio Warwickshire i^ut in a very brilliant day on Monday, January 26th, 

 from Sir C. Mordaunt's favourite covert, Oxhill Gorse. Those who rode to 

 the place of meeting over ground in which " the bone " still clvmg in a very 

 uncomfortable manner, little thought how in a short time they would be 

 galloping and jumping in the Yale of the Red Horse, as if the going had 

 been perfect. Many thought it would be a regular Walton day, and that we 

 should be in the home coverts round Bowshot all day, and were somewhat 

 surprised when Lord Willoughl:)y trotted oif to Oxhill. The result justified 

 his judgment, for the going was far bettor than it would have been on the 

 higher ground ; and when hounds run fast, as they always do south-west of 

 Kineton, a little more danger here and there goes for nothing. 



I arrived late, hoj)ing tliat the hounds would run away from me ; but they 

 kept on persistently turning to me and continually putting me into danger, 

 which I always kept on cautiously avoiding. Against my wiU, therefore, I 

 am able to say exactly what hounds did and where they ran. They found at 

 Sir Charles's beautiful covert, where two foxes were afoot ; ran sharp and 

 well by Oxhill Village as if for Edge Hill, sAvung to the left (some said there 

 were two lines here), and on to Pillerton New Covert and Plantation. 

 Whether they overran the scent, or whether there were two foxes before 

 them, I know not. I do know that a hunted fox went to the right over the 

 Oxhill and Kineton road at Herd Hill — a very pretty twenty minutes, with a 

 somewhat unsatisfactory ending. Not so with the next venture. 



