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or less apparent, now deepened, and there were times 

 when he became almost morose in his gloom. But he 

 brightened when the shooting season drew near, and the 

 sport he loved never failed, for a while at any rate, to 

 dispel his melancholy. Indirectly it was his love of 

 sport that brought about his death. In the August of 

 1882 he went up to his Scottish shooting-lodge at 

 Aviemore Forest, near Glen more, for grouse-shooting 

 and deer-stalking. He had built a new wing to the lodge 

 during the summer, and took up his quarters in th it 

 portion of the house. Unfortunately, the walls were not 

 yet dry, and Lord Stamford caught a severe cold, which 

 was followed by an attack of typhoid fever. He 

 recovered, however, sufficiently to appear at Newmarket 

 for the First October, but he looked a wreck, 

 and his frame was obviously so weakened that any 

 further illness must prove fatal. He went back to 

 Bradgate a doomed man, for he was seized with 

 pleuro-pneumonia, which affected both lungs, the left 

 arm, and both sides of his body. He endured some 

 weeks of great pain till death released him on January 

 2nd, 1883, within four days of the completion of his 

 fifty-sixth year. 



Lord Stamford had no issue by either marriage, and 

 on his death two of his titles, Earl of Warrington and 

 Baron Delamere, became extinct ; the other two, Earl of 

 Stamford and Lord Grey of Groby, with the estates 

 attached thereto, went to an eccentric cousin who had 

 settled in South Africa. The eighth Earl, however, 

 never took the trouble to come home and claim his 

 inheritance. Civilised society had no attractions for 



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