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cession, and was subsequently presented with a handsome 

 piece of plate by a number ,of grateful and admiring 

 members of the sex whose cause he had championed. 



After losing his seat, as I have recorded, he took no 

 further part in politics, but devoted himself entirely to 

 sport. For many years he lived at Beacon Lodge, on 

 the skirts of the New Forest. Of his life and sur- 

 roundings there he has given the following picturesque 

 and pleasing glimpse in the Preface to his " Reminis- 

 cences of a Huntsman ": 



" While writing this work, I am sitting in my study at 

 Beacon Lodge, the wide and open window admitting 

 the southerly wind fresh from the blue waves of Christ- 

 church Bay. There are but seventy yards of short turf 

 and lawn between me and the edge of the cliff. The 

 farthest pet from me is my grey forest-pony, Dingle, 

 calmly cropping the short greensward, while round her 

 legs are frisking a quantity of rabbits. Here and there 

 some beautiful little bantams, with their chickens, are in 

 search of insects ; the group varied by several hybrids 

 bred from the bantam and pheasant. Nearer to the 

 house are rabbits stretched in the sun, and basking in 

 company with Brenda, the pet of the drawing-room, a 

 greyhound who won the Puppy stakes of her year at 

 the Greenway, in Gloucestershire. A New Forest fawn, 

 now approximating to a doe, and, locally almost the 

 last of her race, bounds in play here and there, where 

 used to frisk my poor Gazelle ; and a stout game-cock 

 seems to preside over all, one or two pert little bantam- 

 cocks absolutely availing themselves of the shadow of 

 his tall, bluff breast as a cool place to crow from. 



