1894] LORD CHESHAM. 277 



in a hunting country. The following biography appeared 

 in Br/ih/s Magnzino : 



Charles William Comi^ton, third Baron Chesliam, was born in 1850, and 

 after Ids Eton days entered the Coldstream Guards, prepared to enjoy life 

 with the keen a])petite of a sportsman, and to find as so many have found : 



That the best of my fun, 



I owe it to the horse and hoaud. 



Ho luiuted at one time from Kilworth, in Leicestershire, with Mr. Tailby's 

 hounds. For over four years he sei'ved with the 10th Hussars in India ; took 

 very kindly to polo and pig sticking, and in his last year won the Gauges Cu]). 



In 1877 Lord Chesham returned home, and married Lady Beatrice 

 Grosveuor, the second daughter of the Duke of Westminster. She, like her 

 lord, was devoted to hounds, aud was already known as a fine horsewoman. 



In 1882 he came to the Bicester country, then hunted by his friend Lord 

 Valentia, and on the retirement of the latter in 1884 Lord Chesham succeeded 

 him, and has had good though varying sport in what he descril)es as 

 " the most sport loving aud hospitable of countries." Possessed of most 

 courteous manners, but still master when the master is required, he is most 

 popular in the Bicester country ; a first rate man to hounds although no light 

 weight, aud both himself aud Lady Chesham are always to be found in the 

 tirst flight. It has ))een remarked of him. that he never makes an enemy or 

 forgets an acquaintance. He not only gives good prices for his hunters, but 

 sees that his men are thorougldy well mounted also. But, singularly modest 

 in his opinion of himself, his acts, and deeds, it would pain Lord Chesham 

 if we told half the jjraises of him which we hear. Sufficient to say that he is 

 thought a very worthy successor to the old Drakes, and we hope he may 

 contiuu(^ for luauy years to show sport in the old country, where this name 

 is still held in lumour. 



Amongst those who hunted in the country at this time 

 were Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Lucy, Mr. and Mrs. Thurshy 

 Pelham, Mr. Hunter Blair, Mr. Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Tree 

 (of Ashorne), the Messrs. Flowers, Captain McCalmont, 

 Mr. Fane Gladwin, Captain Morrall, Mr. George Paton. 

 Mr. Broughton Dugdale, Mr. Frank Dugdale, Sir Pery and 

 Lady Van Notten Pole, Mr. J. Nisbet Paton, Mr. C. 

 Palmer Morewood, Captain Paul, and Mr. G. A. Fenwick. 

 The following, who also hunted in the country, were noted 

 good riders : Mr. C. T. Pichardson, Mr. Coleridge Boles, 

 Mr. A. E. Thursby, Captain Lafone and Mr. Savory (of 

 the 4tli Hussars), and Caj^tain Haig and Mr. Yaughan (of 

 the 7th Hussars), Mr. S. Mary on Wilson, Mr. E. L. L 

 Blyth and Mrs. Blyth, the Rev. H. F. Knightley, Captain 

 Daly (of the ISth Hussars), and Mr. W. E. Greene, M.P. 



Mrs, Fairfax Lucy and her sisters, Miss Linda Lucy and 



