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show that with gun and rifle, over moor and stubble, in 

 the deer-forest and the pheasant-covert, there was no 

 deadlier shot in the three kingdoms. 



Lord Stamford was the only son of Lord Grey of 

 Groby, who sat in the House of Lords under that title 

 from 1832 to 1835, and died in the latter year at the 

 age of forty-two, leaving his son to succeed him in the 

 barony at the age of eight. The young Lord Grey, 

 who was also heir-apparent to the Earldom of Stamford 

 and Warrington, was sent to a private school at Hatfield, 

 of which the Rev. H. Peile was head, and among his 

 schoolfellows were the late Duke of Westminster, the late 

 Earl of Derby, and the late Earl of Lichfield. Hatfield 

 at that time also boasted of another private school, of 

 which Dr. Faithful was master, scarcely less select than 

 Mr. Peile's. If the latter could number the most noble- 

 men on its roll, the former could show a greater number 

 of the sons of eminent Commoners, and the two went by 

 the names respectively of the House of Lords and the 

 House of Commons. The future Earl of Stamford was 

 conspicuous among his contemporaries at both schools 

 as a cricketer, runner, and jumper. But it was with 

 the gun that his precocity was most remarkable. He 

 was ten years old when he was first allowed to go 

 out partridge-shooting ; he had never fired at a bird 

 on the wing before, and yet he killed, right and left, 

 the first birds that rose to him, and at the end of the 

 day he had bagged fourteen brace. 



Whilst he was still at Mr. Peile's school the young 

 Lord Grey, by the death of his grandfather at the age 

 of eighty, succeeded to the Earldom of Stamford and 



