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sisters. He had a good natural voice, but 

 generally sang without any accompaniment. In 

 those days I took more interest in entomology, 

 for which pursuit I do not think Powys cared 

 much. Harrow discipline in those days was 

 laxer than now, and, being a home boarder, I had 

 no difficulty in getting my tutor to sign my 

 name as absent from " bill " for trivial reasons, 

 often for riding up to London, or in search of 

 some entomological specimens at some distance 

 from Harrow. After Powys left he went to a 

 private tutor at Lausanne, and we regularly 

 corresponded all the time he was out there ; 

 and on his return I remember him coming to 

 Harrow and distributing amongst his friends 

 who cared for them numbers of skins of birds 

 that he had collected in Switzerland. To me 

 he gave a pair of the rare wall-creeper, 

 Tichodroma muraria, which I still have in my 

 possession, often reminding me of the days when 

 we were boys together. Kecent years have 

 separated us, and I think the last occasion I 

 saw Lord Lilford was in his rooms in Tenterden 

 Street, at the Ornithological Union Club, just 

 after the death of his eldest son. Hearing that 



