THE FAMILY OF VILLEBOIS. 



No one who looks at the portrait of Mr Henry Ville- 

 bois on the preceding page, would set him down as 

 anything but a typical English gentleman, the de- 

 scendant of a long line of honest Englishmen. Yet his 

 descent, like his name, was unmistakably French, and the 

 family had not been domiciled in this country for more 

 than two generations when the three brothers, whose 

 names are familiar to all hunting men, showed how com- 

 pletely they had become acclimatised to English sports. 

 When they first left their French home, the Villebois 

 made for Ireland, where they had been settled for a 

 generation or more, when William Villebois came over to 

 London and married a daughter of Sir Benjamin Truman, 

 the founder of the great brewing firm of Truman, Han- 

 bury, and Buxton, who then ranked third among the great 

 London brewers, Calvert & Co., and Whitbread being re- 

 spectively first and second. William Villebois had three 

 sons, John Truman, Henry, and Frederick Read Orme, 

 all of whom were well-known sportsmen. John Truman, 

 the eldest, and his brother Henry, became, on attaining 

 their majority, partners in the great brewery, from which 

 each of them derived a very handsome income. Neither 

 of them, however, took any active part in the business. 



