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his outside the House has been recorded. After his 

 victory over Henry Brougham at the election of 1832, 

 the latter, on learning the result of the polling, made an 

 impassioned oration from the hustings. When he had 

 finished, the successful Colonel had his say, and what he 

 said was this : ' I point, gentlemen, to the poll.' That 

 was all, but it was enough, and the roar of cheers which 

 greeted him showed that the speech was as telling as it 

 was laconic. 



Henry, the son of the Peninsular veteran, also com- 

 menced his career as a soldier, and served in the Life 

 Guards from 1837 to 1852, when he retired as Captain, 

 but subsequently attained the honorary rank of Colonel. 

 He was a fine sportsman and a devoted lover of hunting. 

 In 1870, whilst still Colonel Lowther, he followed in the 

 footsteps of his grandfather, and became Master of the 

 Cottesmore in succession to Sir John Trollope, who had 

 hunted the country for sixteen seasons. When his uncle, 

 the old earl, died in 1872 at the age of eighty-four, and 

 Colonel Lowther succeeded to the title and estates, he still 

 retained the Mastership of the Cottesmore, which he con- 

 tinued to hold till his death in 1876. For the two following 

 years his eldest son and successor, St George Henry 

 Lowther, was also Master of the Cottesmore, but re- 

 signed the horn to Lord Carrington in 1878. 



On the brief and melancholy career of the fourth earl, 

 who died in 1882 at the early age of twenty-six, there is 

 no need to dwell. And I come now to his brother and 

 successor, Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 

 the most brilliant sportsman that his ancient line has 

 yet produced. Born in 1857, he was educated at Eton, 

 where he was good at all athletic games. As a steeple- 

 chaser, hurdle-racer, and sprinter he had few equals 



