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Of a family of famous huntsmen, Frank is one of the 

 most distinguished. His first appearance in the hunting- 

 field was as second horseman to Tom Wingfield, hunts- 

 man to old Mr Drake, and he first donned scarlet on the 

 1st of May 185 1, the day of the opening of the Great Ex- 

 hibition in Hyde Park, when he entered the service of Mr 

 Lumley, then Master of the Grove, under Will Merry as 

 huntsman. Frank says that he well remembers his father 

 driving him over to Bletchley station, and how the tears 

 stood in the old man's eyes as he bade his son farewell, 

 with the words : ' My boy, you are now going into the 

 world to make either a man or a mouse.' Of the two, 

 Frank elected to make the former. His experience has 

 been varied. He was with Lord Portsmouth, with the 

 Vine under George Turner and with Mr Oakley, as first 

 whip ; and hunted the Meath, Sir Watkin Wynn's, the 

 Cottesmore, and Mr Tailby's. For nine years he was 

 huntsman to the last-named noted sportsman, and he 

 has a big album full of portraits of the Leicestershire 

 hunting men, whose esteem and respect, both in public 

 and private, he most deservedly gained. 



From Mr Tailby's Frank Goodall went to the Queen's 

 in 1 872, and Lord Ribblesdale pays him this high tribute : 

 * Goodall was quite undefeated over the biggest country 

 in England. When huntsman to Mr Tailby, he held the 

 position, in the estimation of those most competent to 

 form an opinion in his day, equivalent to that held by 

 Tom Firr now. His style of riding compared favourably 

 with that of Charles Davis and Jem Mason in their best 

 days. He rode over a country with the same care which 

 characterised these two fine horsemen.' Let me give 

 one or two extracts from Goodall's Letters and Diaries in 

 illustration of his adventures by flood and field. Speak- 



