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of eighty-three ; but his successor died 

 young, and left his son a minor, during 

 which period a committee, with Sir Carnaby 

 Haggerston as the chief, was appointed to 

 conduct the hunting arrangements till his 

 Grace came of age, who then assumed the 

 reins of government, conducting everything 

 with the utmost liberality, good taste, and 

 kind courtesy. In the year 1831, the 

 mastership was transferred to Lord For- 

 ester, a nobleman whose ancestors had 

 so greatly distinguished themselves as to 

 render all the highest attributes of the chase 

 inheritances. The late Lord Forester, one 

 of the finest horsemen that ever crossed 

 Leicestershire or Lincolnshire, imparted 

 the same excellences to his son, and the 

 superlative judgment of Squire Forester, 

 of Willey, in all matters relative to hounds 

 and hunting, was another of the family 

 qualities which his lordship cultivated by 

 that most important mentor, experience. 



