LORD TREDEGAR 



office of president. He had admirable business 

 qualities, and was an ideal chairman, for he was 

 a master of terse expression, and never used two 

 words where one would do. He was one of the 

 most polished, the most modest, and the best- 

 groomed men I ever met. He had just that gentle 

 courtesy which put every one in his company at 

 ease, while, as all South Wales could testify, his 

 generosity was unbounded. On one occasion I 

 spent some time with him in a carriage under 

 rather exceptional circumstances. It was when 

 the show was held at Newport (Mon.), during the 

 presidency of the present King, then Prince of 

 Wales. As we were anxious that there should be 

 no hitch when his Royal Highness visited the show, 

 we had, a few days before the show opened, a 

 carriage rehearsal. In the first carriage sat his 

 lordship, who, as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, 

 would have to share the vehicle with the Prince, 

 and, in lieu of anyone better, I had to impersonate 

 his Royal Highness. The stewards, entering into 

 the humour of the occasion, were in waiting at 

 every department where we made a call, and 

 received me with the most profound obeisances, 

 whilst I, in return, graciously unbent in the manner 

 of rdyalty. But it seemed to be such a remarkable 

 linking up of the present with the past that, after 

 all these years, I should be playing a game of 

 make-believe with a man, who, as a member of 

 an immortal band, was one of the heroes of my 

 childhood. Verily, it is the unexpected that 

 always happens ! 



I have mentioned his lordship's power of 

 verbal compression, and I remember one particular 



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