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defeated by Messrs. T. W. Evans and C. R. Colvile. 

 In 1862 he succeeded his father in the family estates 

 at Broughton Hall, Lancashire, and married, in 1863, 

 the Honourable Adelaide Cavendish, second daughter of 

 the third Lord Waterpark. In the same year he took the 

 Quorn country on Lord Stamford retiring, buying the 

 hounds from the latter, whose right-hand man he had 

 been for a long time. But ill-luck pursued him doggedly. 

 A bad scenting time up to Christmas was followed by 

 frost, which lasted well into March. Then came a drought, 

 and, as a climax — on the last day, when they met at his 

 house — a snowstorm, so heavy that they could not hunt 

 at all. The next year the autumn was dry and the going 

 very bad up till Christmas. All through February there 

 was a frost. The third season was the best, and then, in 

 1866, Mr. Clowes, who had only taken the hounds because 

 there was no one else to do so, gladly resigned the reins 

 to the Marquis of Hastings. In 1867 his eldest son, now 

 Captain Henry Arthur Clowes (late of the First Life 

 Guards), was born, and subsequently another son, Ernest 

 (Captain First Life Guards), and three daughters. In 

 1868 he was returned as Conservative member for North 

 Leicestershire, for which constituency he sat till 1880, 

 when he retired. It is hardly the place here to mention 

 all he did in the neighbourhood of his Salford estates, 

 which formerly comprised one third of the whole borough, 

 but when he gave, and he seems to have been always 

 giving, it was with no stinting hand. 



In 1872, in conjunction with his brother-in-law. Lord 

 Waterpark, he became the first master of the Meynell 

 Hounds, having previously purchased the Norbury estate 

 from the FitzHerberts of Swynnerton. The House at 

 Norbury was begun in 1872, and was not finished till 

 1874. In 1880 he bought the Cubley estates from Mr. 

 Howard, and thus had in a ring fence a property extend- 

 ing from Cubley Stoop, where it joins Lord Vernon, to 

 the road by Raddle Wood and the Queen iVdelaide inn, 

 and, on the other side, to within five fields of Longford. 



