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CHAPTER III 



His Marriage to Miss Emma Brandling in 1859 — Her Death in 

 1884 — Succession to Title in 1861 — Aviaries built at Lilford 

 Hall — Visits to Spain in 1864 and 1865 — Extracts from Diary 

 in Spain — Letter written some years afterwards to his Brother, 

 the Hon. and Rev. E. V. Powys, on a proposed Tour in 

 Spain — Walk through the New Forest with Tennyson — 

 British Ornithologists' Union in Tenterden Street — Letters to 

 Canon Tristram, 1860 to 1866— Letter from Hon. Stephen 

 Powys — Letters to Canon Tristram, H. M. Upcher, Dr. Albert 

 Gtinther, Lieut. -Colonel Howard Irby, and Lord Walsingham 

 from 1872 to 1884. 



In the winter of 1858-59, my father and mother 

 rented a villa at Nice, with General and Lady 

 Mary Fox. It was at this place that my brother 

 first became acquainted with Miss Emma 

 Brandling, who was on a visit to Lady Mary 

 Fox, at the Villa Gastaud. She was one of the 

 daughters of Mr. Brandling, of Low Gosforth, 

 Northumberland, a family well known in the 

 North for their possession of more than average 

 good looks. Emma was the youngest, and by 

 many persons considered the most beautiful of 



