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for eight-and-twenty years given such excellent sport 

 showed their appreciation of his rare qualities as a 

 Master by presenting him with an exquisite group of 

 statuary in silver, representing a scene from his own 

 hunting experiences, whilst Will Goodall, his huntsman, 

 at the same time received a handsome testimonial in the 

 shape of a purse of 300 sovereigns. 



Lord Forester did not marry till late in life. He was 

 fifty-six when the widow of the last Earl of Melbourne 

 became his wife. Before coming into the title at his 

 father's death, he sat for two years, 1826 to 1828, as M.P. 

 for Wenlock, a constituency which both his grand-uncle, 

 the squire, and his father had represented before him. 

 When the Conservatives came into power under Sir 

 Robert Peel, on the break-up of Lord Melbourne's 

 ministry in 1841, Lord Forester was appointed Captain 

 of the Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, and was created a 

 Privy Councillor. He held that appointment, attached 

 to the Royal Household, till 1846. He died on the loth 

 of October 1874, having not long completed his seventy- 

 third year. A fine horseman, an excellent shot, skilled 

 in all manner of woodcraft, and as keen a foxhunter as 

 ever lived. Lord Forester well deserves to be held in 

 remembrance as an excellent specimen of the typical 

 English gentleman and sportsman. 



