FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 5 



as the history of Tom and Jerry — and extinct as 

 Pierce Egan himself. 



Early in 1857 I was appointed aide-de-camp 

 to General Sir Richard England, who commanded 

 the troops in the district of the Curragh of Kildare, 

 and was there until 1858, when I was ordered to 

 join the 4th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade at 

 Chichester, a new battalion just raised and 

 organised by Colonel Elrington, a very smart 

 Rifleman. From Chichester Barracks some of us 

 used to hunt with Colonel Wyndham's hounds 

 (Squires was his huntsman), in what afterwards 

 became the Goodwood Country. Colonel Wynd- 

 ham was created Lord Leconfield in 1859, died 

 in 1869, and was succeeded by his son Henry 

 Wyndham of the ist Life Guards (a lifelong friend 

 of mine), who became the second Lord Leconfield 

 and reigned at Petworth as M.F.H. until his 

 lamented death in 1901. Sheppard, his hunts- 

 man, was one of the best in his profession, and a 

 particularly nice man. 



The 4th Battalion was ordered out to Malta, 

 and landed there in August 1858. The following 

 spring I again went on the Staff as aide-de-camp to 

 General Sir Gaspard Le Marchant, who was then 

 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island. 

 With him I remained until His Excellency went 

 to England, where we arrived in May i860. On my 



