LETTER FROM COLONEL H. BARCLAY 47 



I was in the Club he sent for me, and I did all 

 I could to alleviate the bitter grief that he was 

 enduring. 



' I can only add that all the remembrance 

 of my association with Lord Lilford is a great 

 happiness. I can never remember seeing him at 

 any time uncourteous. He was always happy, 

 unless sorrow intervened, and then his aim was 

 not to intrude his sorrow to make others sad ; 

 and even in the last few years of his life, when 

 bodily weakness prevented him from moving 

 about, those who knew him all tell me that his 

 genial temperament never failed.' 



Harrow was succeeded by Christ Church, 

 Oxford, to which college my brother went in 

 1852. Of course the ruling passion accompanied 

 him there, and he knew the neighbourhood of 

 Oxford, and haunted it after the fashion of the 

 1 Scholar Gipsy,' but for the sake of sport and 

 ornithological observation. For the two went 

 always together. My brother was a keen and 

 ardent sportsman, but the love of the gun never 

 overlaid the love of the particular science which 

 accorded with his inborn tastes. 



My brother left Oxford in 1855. Of < book 



