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INDEX. 



fox-huntin.sr, 32, 33, 37-40; race- 

 course made by, in 1S00...34, 40; 

 keeps choice birds and animals, 

 35; the Prince Eegcnt (George IV.) 

 hunts with, at Goodwood, 36 ; 

 founder of the Goodwood Eaces, 

 40, 41 ; his later days, 41 ; death 

 of, 42 ; portrait of, by Komney, at 

 Goodwood, 198 ; and the Charlton 

 Hunt, 218, 223 

 Eichmond, the fourth Duke of, his 

 birth, 43; chooses the military 

 profession, and is gazetted full 

 General, 43; the Duke, when 

 Colonel Lennox of the Coldstream 

 Guards, fights a duel with the 

 Duke of York (afterwards George 

 IV.), 44-47 ; appointed Lord 

 Lieutenant of Ireland in 1807. ..47, 

 48, 55 ; his marriage, 49 ; enter- 

 tains the Duke of Wellington at 

 Brussels on the eve of Waterloo, 

 49, 50, 78, 79 ; appointed Governor- 

 General of the British settlements 

 in North America, 50; his death 

 of hydrophobia in Canada, 51-55 ; 

 buried at Quebec Cathedral, 54; 

 gives the famous Goodwood pack 

 of foxhounds in 1813 to the Prince 

 Eegent, 55; his friendship with 

 the Duke of Wellington, 55-61, 65 ; 

 the Duke of Wellington and third 

 daughter of, see Eos, Lady de; 

 portrait of, at Goodwood, 198; 

 gives up the Goodwood Hounds, 

 211 

 Eichmond, the fifth Duke of, visited 

 by George IV., 47; the honours 

 and estates of "Gordon" descend 

 to, 49 ; birth and early days, 68 ; 

 his rapid promotion in the army, 

 69 ; his experiences in the Penin- 

 sula War as aide-de-camp to the 

 Duke of Wellington, 69-78; 

 wounded at the battle of Orthez, 

 76-78 ; at the battle of Waterloo, 

 SO, 81 ; his marriage, 81, 82 ; 

 racehorses run and owned by, 83- 

 106; accident to, 83; winnings 

 during his racing career, 101 ; and 

 the repeal of an obsolete racing 

 Act, 103-105 ; disposes of his horses 

 at Tattersall's, 106 ; as a politician 

 and country gentleman, 107-111 ; 

 and the Hampnett Union, 111- 

 113; and the Sussex Militia, 113, 

 114; petitions the House of Lords 

 for medals for Peninsula soldiers. 



114-123; military testimonial to, 

 124-135 ; further incidents in his 

 political life, 136-145 ; as Earl of 

 March, M.P. for Chichester, 136; 

 and the duty on wool, 138, 139; 

 and the Catholic Emancipation 

 Bill, 139-143; selected as one of 

 the pall-bearers at the funeral of 

 George IV., 146 ; joins the Cabinet 

 as Postmaster-General, 148, 153; 

 and the Eeform Bill, 149-151 ; and 

 the Bill for the abolition of slavery, 

 153, 154; and the Irish Church, 

 154-156 ; and agriculture, 157, 

 159-164, 173-178 ; and the Thirty - 

 Nine Articles Bill, 158 ; selected 

 as President of the Society for the 

 Protection of Agriculture, 159, 178, 

 179 ; and the Customs Duties Bill, 

 170, 171; and the Factory Bill, 

 170, 171 ; and the Smithfield Club, 

 179-181; passages from the "Me- 

 moir" of, 181, 182, 180; visits an 

 old Peninsula soldier, 182, 183; 

 and amendments in the Divorce 

 Court Bill, 184 ; illness and death 

 of, 184, 185; his children, 187; 

 wounded in the Peninsular War, 

 see Orthez, battle of. 

 Eichmond, the sixth Duke of, his 

 birth, 187, 188 ; chooses the mili- 

 tary profession, 188; various offices 

 held by, 188, 189; improves the 

 Goodwood estates, 190-192 ; as a 

 patron of the turf, 192, 193; and 

 shooting, 193; festivities on the 

 coming of age of, 208 ; presentation 

 of a piece of plate to, 209 ; re- 

 establishes the Goodwood hounds, 

 211 ; son and heir of. See March, 

 Earl of. 

 Eichmond, Duchess of, 130, 131 ; 

 married to the fourth Duke in 

 1783, 49 

 Eichmond, Duchess of, ball given by, 

 at Brussels, on the eve of Waterloo, 

 57, 58, 66, 79 

 Eichmond, Duchess of (wife of the 

 fifth Duke), 184, 186 ; children ot. 

 187 

 Eichmondville, Canada, 51, 52 

 Eiots in England over the Eeform 



Bill, 151 

 Eipou, Earl of, 157 

 Eoad, made by the third Duke, 20 

 Book's Hill (St. Roche's), 3, 4 

 Eoper, Mr., of the Charlton Hunt, 

 216-219 



