130 LORD LILFORD 



CHAPTEK IV 



His Marriage to Miss Baillic Hamilton in 1885— Description of 

 Lilford Hall— Letters from 1886 to 1896. To Mr. Warner, the 

 Schoolmaster at Lilford ; to Mervyn Powys ; G. E. Lodge 

 Mr. Cullingford, Taxidermist ; Archibald Thorburn ; Dr. Drewitt 

 Miss Schletter ; Hon. Lady Higginson ; Duchess of Bedford 

 Rev. Canon Tristram ; Lieut.-Colonel Howard Irby ; Dr. Albert 

 Giinther ; Lord Walsingham. 



In 1885 my brother married Clementina, the 

 eldest daughter of Ker Baillie Hamilton, Esq., 

 C.B. Perhaps no one craves more for sym- 

 pathetic companionship than a man who is cut 

 off from the ordinary pursuits and amusements 

 of healthy manhood, and when to such a 

 deprivation are added frequent attacks of pain 

 and hours of discomfort, a woman's tender 

 watchfulness and unselfish devotion are bless- 

 ings of untold value. It is a trite saying that 

 nursing can be brought to perfection through 

 the inspiration of love, and my brother proved 

 its truth. His diaries abound with expressions 



