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incident with the Meynell. He was out one day in mufti, 

 and at that time had become very grey. We were having 

 a quick thing from Eadburne, and he was in his usual 

 place. Poor ' Bay ' Middleton was out, and asked me 

 who ' the old gentleman ' was w^ho was going so well. I 

 replied that I would introduce him at the first check. 

 This I did, and he was much surprised when I introduced 

 him to My. Clowes, ex-master of the Quorn, and the 

 Meynell." 



He was succeeded by his son, Captain Henry Arthur 

 Clowes, who was born in 1867, and went to Eton in 1881, 

 where he joined the forces of the "Wet Bobs." In 1887 

 he was attached to the Worcestershire Militia, from which 

 regiment he was transferred to the First Life Guards, 

 to which corps his brother, Captain Ernest Clowes, also 

 belongs. The eldest brother became a captain in 1893, 

 and retired in 1896. The year 1899 was signalized by 

 two events. The first was his marriage with the eldest 

 daughter of Admiral the Honourable Algernon Littleton, 

 of Cross Hayes, Hoar Cross. The second event was his 

 joining the Staffordshire Yeomanry, in which he takes 

 the keenest interest. In the following year his son, 

 Henry Samuel Littleton, was born. 



Captain Clowes inherits his father's sporting instincts, 

 and was master for part of one season of the Windsor 

 Drag, but, though there is no more staunch fox-preserver, 

 the forest, the moor, and the river, in the land of the 

 Scot, have more attractions for him than the chase of the 

 fox over the pastures of his native country. Those who 

 know best say that the wild stags of Flowerdale have to 

 be wide awake when he goes a-stalking, which he does on 

 his own account, undirected by any professional exponent 

 of that difiicult art. Many a goodly trophy at Norbury 

 bears witness to the prowess of both father and son, though 

 the most curious are the one-horned and three-horned 

 heads which adorn the wall in the billiard-room. There 

 is another head in the hall, by-the-bye, which possesses 

 a peculiar interest, for it belonged to the very last fox 



