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men." Colonel Hawker's second marriage took place in 

 1844 to Helen Susan, widow of Captain John Symonds, 

 R.N., and daughter of Major Chatterton. The great 

 sportsman's grandson Captain Peter Hawker, R.N., is 

 now in possession of Longparish House, and his grand- 

 daughter Miss M. E. Hawker, who writes under the 

 the pseudonym of " L. Falconer," is the authoress of 

 "Mademoiselle Ixe," a novel of considerable merit. 



In personal appearance Colonel Hawker was strikingly 

 handsome. He stood six feet, and to the end of his 

 days was as straight as a lance, with the unmistakable 

 carriage of a soldier. In his manners he was a gentleman 

 to the finger-tips. What he was as a practical sportsman 

 the reader will have gathered from the foregoing pages, 

 though I must not omit to add that he was an accom- 

 plished fly-fisher, as the trout of the Test had reason to 

 know, for, at the lowest computation, he must have killed 

 some twenty thousand of them. His " Instructions to 

 Young Sportsmen " is still the best book on wild-fowl 

 shooting in our language. " It is a book," says Sir 

 Ralph Payne-Gallwey, the greatest living authority on 

 the subject, " which for terseness, accuracy, and original 

 information is without an equal. . . . With a few slight 

 alterations, such as the substitution of breech-loaders for 

 muzzle-loaders, it is in many respects as useful for refer- 

 ence to this generation as it was to the last, and especially 

 so with regard to the habits and shooting of wild-fowl." 



"Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise 

 indeed." And any eulogy of mine after such a tribute 

 from such a sportsman would be not only superfluous but 

 impertinent. 



