COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 87 



The first meeting was held at Tattersall's, May, 

 1872. Patron, H.R.H. Prince of Wales ; president, 

 The Duke of Buccleuch ; vice-presidents, Duke of 

 Beaufort, Duke of Grafton, Duke of Rutland, The 

 Marquis of Waterford, The Master of the Buck- 

 hounds. Messrs. Herries & Farquhar, 16 St. 

 James's Street, will receive donations, or they may 

 be paid to Messrs. Tattersall, by P. O. order to the 

 Knio:htsbridp"e Post Office. 



I stated at the meeting that the subscriptions 

 amounted to ^2,000, but I should not be satisfied till 

 they amounted to ;^20,ooo. The funds of the society 

 now invested (1901) amount to ^52,362 14s. 3d. 



1872. — We left Torquay on the ist of May and 

 returned to Mancetter. Jack went to stay at St. 

 Pierre with the Lewises. He went out with Mrs. 

 Lewis and was riding her horse. He jumped a 

 bank, but did not do it well, so had another try and 

 tumbled over it, and the horse rolled over him. Two 

 or three days after he broke a blood-vessel and was 

 laid up for a month. I immediately went to him. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were very kind and did every- 

 thing they could for him, and he got better by degrees. 

 He came back to Mancetter and we returned to 

 Charleton for the summer. 



I went to judge the horses at the Highland 

 Society Show at Kelso, and while there got a 

 telegram to say that he was again laid up. I re- 

 turned home at once ; this time he was not very 

 bad. On 9th October I took him to London and 

 consulted Sir W. Gull and Comberbatch, and settled 



