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places in the English eight for the Elcho Shield at 

 Hythe, and when the match was shot ag t otland 



at Wimbledon he headed the English score. He also 

 took the Albert Cup with a score of 70 out of a possible 

 84 at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, and won altogether 

 nearly 300 in prizes that year. The Any Rifle 

 Association Cup, the Duke of Cambridge's (twice), the 

 Bass, and the Dudley all fell to him at different times. 

 The latter he won in 1893, a ^ ter a tie with Captain 

 Gibbs and Captain A. G. Foulkes, the two finest shots 

 of their generation. Only once, however, did he get 

 into the chosen Sixty (now the Hundred) for the final 

 stage of the Queen's, and that was in 1864, when he was 

 second for the Gold Medal, and only missed the coveted 

 Blue Riband of Rifle-shooting by a point. 



In 1877 an d 1882 he captained the British team at 

 Creedmoor, but failed to secure victory for his side, 

 for the Yankees were wonderful long-range shots in 

 those days. 



Sir Henry was never absolutely the best shot of his 

 day, but no one could boast of so long and steadily 

 successful a career. From the first meeting at which 

 he figured at Wimbledon in 1862 till the year before 

 his death, 1896, he never missed a meeting of the 

 National Rifle Association, though on one occasion, in 

 1895, his once vigorous frame was so enfeebled that 

 he had to ride on a shooting-pony to the firing-point. 



That his hand had not lost its cunning nor his eye 

 its keenness in the lapse of years, Sir Henry proved 

 by winning the Albert Cup for the second time, after 

 an interval of thirty years, in 1891. One of his most 



