1bon. (Brantlep ff. Berkeley 483 



any rate for his first-born, as far from his grasp as ever. 

 His health, too, broke up, and after many months of 

 acute suffering, bravely endured, he died on February 

 23rd, 1 88 1, having just completed his eighty-first year. 

 There were many phases of his character in which I 

 can find nothing to admire, but he was unquestionably 

 a good and true sportsman, and in that capacity I freely 

 admit his claims to respect and admiration. 



