A GOOD ALL-ROUND SPORTSMAN 



for a holiday. No doubt his powers of endurance 

 were greatly helped by his methodical and regular 

 life, for he was extremely abstemious, and having 

 laid down a rule for himself was careful to observe 

 it. Physically and mentally, therefore, he seemed 

 always fit, and to no one could the description 

 mens sana in corpore sano be more truly applied. 

 The cheery optimism with which he always made 

 the best of everything was a help to others beside 

 himself. 



To a great extent his work was his recreation, 

 but he was a good all-round sportsman, a capital 

 shot, and a thorough judge of horse-flesh. He 

 especially delighted in hunting, and was one 

 of the oldest followers of the West Kent and 

 Old Surrey Hounds. Although he enjoyed it 

 as much as ever, when he was well over eighty, 

 he so far deferred, though reluctantly, to age, 

 as to hunt only about once a fortnight instead 

 of, as in previous seasons, three days a week. It 

 was said and it would be thoroughly character- 

 istic of him that he at once increased his public 

 work as a recreative compensation. 



Lofty in his ideals, stern, almost, in his up- 

 rightness, he was, withal, the most lovable of 

 men. As a correspondent, who knew him well, 

 wrote : " He was my idea of what an English 

 country gentleman should be, bold, and strong 

 and gentle." 



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