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Dick Roake got him on with Mr. Hargreaves in the 

 stable with Old Berkshire Hounds, but he could not 

 keep straight with his money, and kept back the 

 men's wages. 



He was sent to Tattersall's with some horses 

 to be sold. After the sale he was found at his 

 brother-in-law's house a public with his head 

 leaning on the table, stone dead, having poisoned 

 himself. He was a member of the Hunt Servants' 

 Society for allowance to widow, but having destroyed 

 himself had forfeited his claim ; but the members of 

 committee of Hunt Servants made up the sum by 

 subscription and sent it to his widow. I think he 

 was servant to Lord Fitzhardinge when he was at 

 college, and he went out with General Beatson 

 during the Crimean War. 



1874. There was a report that the mastership 

 of the Buckhounds would be offered to Francis 

 Lord Rosslyn. He wrote to me : 



" EASTON LODGE, DUNMOW, 

 " 2,gtk January, 1874. 



" MY DEAR JACK, 



" I hear privately that Hardwicke is going 

 to resign the Buckhounds, and that they will 

 probably be offered to me. I don't wish to do 

 anything in a hurry which might entail subsequent 

 regrets ; and I know no one whose judgment I 

 value so much as yours, and I therefore write for 

 your advice. 



"In the first place, the kennel has been deci- 

 mated by rabies, and Hardwicke has acted, in 



