338 REMINISCENCES OF 



Went to Charleton on loth June. 



Commenced cub-hunting, second season, No- 

 bottle Wood, 8th August, 1865. 



At Brigstock one morning when going out cub- 

 hunting Edwards and Tom were not to be found, 

 so I went out with Dick and Morris. The two 

 defaukers had been at a ball all night. I had 

 received a doubtful character of Edwards, and told 

 him he would be discharged without warning for his 

 first offence. He was an ill-conditioned chap, so I 

 started him. I then got George Orbell, but he was no 

 use. I then engaged Humphrey Pearce, but he was 

 no good either, but I kept him till the end of the season. 



My mother and sisters were staying with me at 

 Pitsford, when we heard that my brother had died at 

 Calcutta. In the burial ground at Kilconquhar, 

 in Fife, this tablet is erected by his widow to his 

 memory : — 



WILLIAM ADAM ANSTRUTHER THOMSON, 



Lieut.-Col., gth Bengal Cavalry, 



who died in Calcutta, 3rd August, 1865, aged 42 years. He 

 served throughout the Scinde campaign on the personal staff 

 of Sir Chas. Napier; after which he was two years Adjutant 

 of 15th Irregular Cavalry; Commandant of the Governor- 

 General's Bodyguard for eleven years under Lord Dalhousie 

 and Lord Canning; and Political Agent at Moorshedabad, 

 which appointment he held at the time of his death. 



" A character so noble, simple and true needs no de- 

 scription, but was appreciated by all who knew him ; and 

 its memory is fondly cherished by the wife and children he 

 so tenderly loved." 



My brother, William Adam Anstruther Thomson, 

 was a subaltern in the Bengal Cavalry, and on Sir 



