THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



heir was eleven years of age, was himself a very 

 fine coachman. He was both quick and strong, 

 and moreover had those light hands that make any 

 horses go well. Soon after Glamorgan was sent to 

 school Lord Worcester determined to lighten his 

 labours in the House of Commons with some coach- 

 ing, so he started a coach of his own in partnership 

 with one Alexander, a large horse owner in the 

 Borough. The partners soon had two coaches 

 on the Brighton road, one called the Wonder, 

 and an afternoon coach known as the Quicksilver, 

 both leaving at four of the clock. The Quicksilver's 

 name was changed later to Criterion, and this 

 is the dark-blue coach with red wheels drawn 

 by four bays and with Lord Worcester on the box 

 which is depicted in a well-known print. 



Lord Glamorgan's first school was at Brighton, 

 and a very rough one it seems to have been. 

 Those were the days when flogging was considered 

 a cure for all moral and intellectual failings. Un- 

 luckily for the youth of the period, a doubtful trans- 

 lation of Solomon's proverbs was accepted as inspired 

 truth, and the most tenderhearted parents re- 

 proached themselves if they did not profit by the 

 Biblical warning, "Spare the rod and spoil the 

 child." While this was the effect on the naturally 

 humane, many parents of a harder mould, and 

 schoolmasters who were flagellators by profession, 

 undoubtedly carried out the implied duty in a 

 manner we should consider brutal. Of the kind of 



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