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greatest lovers of the noble pursuit that I have ever 

 had the good fortune to know. Greatly will his loss 

 be deplored by many, as a more genial and amusing 

 companion could not be found — his society being 

 eagerly sought for, and his popularity universal. 

 No writer on sporting subjects has ever, to my 

 mind, equalled him in elegance of style and prac- 

 tical knowledge of hunting, and his death will cause 

 a gap in the field of this class of literature which 

 will not easily be filled. Born in 1821, he had con- 

 sequently attained his fifty-seventh year, and when 

 last I was out with him with the Duke of Rutland's 

 Hounds, he rode as forward, and with as much nerve 

 and judgment, as did the youngest of the brilliant 

 performers that go across the Shires. Great as his 

 loss is to his many friends and admirers, how far 

 heavier the calamity falls on his aged father, who 

 lias to mourn the loss of a kindly-hearted and accom- 

 plished son. If sympathy in his sorrow will alleviate 

 his distress, there will be no lack of it amidst the 

 large circle of acquaintance to whom his son was 

 always a welcome companion and a cheery friend. 



