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pline, and incorrigible idleness so far as the mysteries 

 of Latin and Greek were concerned. Upon leaving 

 Eton he became the private pupil of Doctor Carr, 

 then Vicar of Brighton, and subsequently Bishop 

 of Chichester, who managed with great difficulty to 

 prepare him for Oxford, where he matriculated at 

 Brasenose on the 3rd of May, 1805 ; but he left 

 Oxford without taking his degree, as might only 

 have been expected, since he had already taken 

 M.F.tL honours before he went up to the 'Varsity. 

 In boyhood he had received his first riding lessons, 

 while living with his mother at Bath, from Dash, 

 the most celebrated riding master of the day, and 

 after leaving Eton he bought a pack of dwarf fox- 

 hounds from Lord Jersey, with which he hunted 

 over his mother's property near Scarborough ; but I 

 have been unable to discover any record of the sport 

 which he was able to show, though to this period 

 must be attributed his education in hound lore. His 

 first country after leaving Oxford was the Burton, 

 which he hunted for five seasons with hounds pur- 

 chased from Lord Monson, from which sprang the 

 celebrated Monson strain. Osbaldeston, for it was 

 not till he became Master of the Quorn that he was 

 called the Squire, now began to prove his practical 

 knowledge of kennel work. Even at the present 

 day his hound Vaulter is a name to conjure with 

 in kennel circles. Osbaldeston was fond of saying 

 that Vaulter was the only perfect thing in the world, 

 for he had never told a lie. After five seasons in 



