INTRODUCTION 



By THE BISHOP OF LONDON 



I have been asked to add to the following Memoir 

 a few words by way of Introduction. I regard 

 it as a great privilege to be permitted to do 

 so ; for there are very few men who left upon 

 my mind so vivid an impression of a noble 

 character as did the late Lord Lilford. In say- 

 ing this I feel that I represent the great majority 

 of those who knew him ; and if I speak in my 

 own person, it is the only way in which this 

 common impression can be conveyed. 



Lord Lilford has name and fame as an 

 Ornithologist, but that is beyond my power to 

 appreciate. To me he was a man of remarkable 

 attainments and singular charm, a man whom 



