^ M_ut^ li /y Henby Boden. /r^t' 



\ Mr. Henry Boden, of The Friary, Derby, who died in 

 London on Saturdtiy after an operation for hip trouble, 

 was the oldest member of the Meynell and the Quom 

 Hunta. He had attended every opening meet of the first 

 named pack for 61 years, and he well remembered having 

 been out with t he Qu om at Bunny,|park in 1848, when 

 Sir Richard Sutton was the maslOT. Ho had hunted 

 with every master since then. As he spent every autumn 

 with the Devon and Somerset on Exmocr, returning 

 to Derbyshire for cub-hunting, Mr. Boden was one of the 

 few men who could claim to hunt every month in the 

 year except June. He left Rugby School in 1864, 

 and had shot and fished in Scotland every season since 

 then, while up to the dc^th of his son on the polo field 

 at Rugby in August, 1901, he played occasional games, 

 although he never hit a ball until he was 61 years of age. 

 Mr. Boden was also a patron of cricket and was president 

 of the Derbysloir© County Club for some years. He 

 got together teams representative of the Gentlemen of the 

 North and South in 1862, and was to have played, but 

 he was prevented from doing so by the death of hia 

 father. There was no more familiar figure in Midland 

 sport, and for many seasons Mr. Boden was a regular 

 visitor to Hurlingham on the occasion of all the important 

 polo matches. 



In the social and political life of Derby Mr. Boden 

 wielded a remarkable influence. He entered the business 

 of his father, who was then a prosperous lace manufacturer, 

 and he became head of what is probably the biggest firm 

 of plain net maker^ in the world, employing many 

 hundreds of hands at Derby, Chard, and other places. 

 In hi? younger days he was a prominent Conservative in 

 politics ; but his wife and he being active Temperance 

 workers, he was led to throw in liis lot with Sir WilUam 

 Harcourt when he introduced his Local Veto Bill. This, and 

 social probleins generally, ultimately led to his becoming 

 an ardent Radical. It was common knowledge that Sir 

 WDliam Harcovu*t regarded him as one of his trusti&st 

 local advisers. Mr. Boden was a benefactor to the town in 

 many ways, and liLs contributions to various local 

 objects were on a generous scale. The Derby Temperance 

 I Society, of which he v/as president in 1 905, and the 

 Churches of St. Wosburgh and All Saints, Derby, have 

 ' special reason to remember his liberality. 



Mr. Boden married, in 1867, Jlias Mary Shuttleworth 

 Holden, a member of a weU-l-aio^vn Derbyshire family, 

 and she survives Iiim, together with three sons and one 

 1 daughter. 



