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much more frequent and determined than they 

 have been since the latter date. Few men through- 



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out life had more disputes referred to them for 

 arbitration than his Grace, and the spirit of fair- 

 ness which he brought to his task was so well 

 known that his decisions were never appealed 

 against even by those who were losers thereby. 

 The Duke, or rather Mr Lennox, entered the 

 army at a very early age, and was at once gazetted 

 to the 13th Light Dragoons, then in the Penin- 

 sula. In the summer of 1810, being then in his 

 nineteenth year, he embarked from Portsmouth for 

 Lisbon, where he met upon his arrival with a most 

 cordial reception from Vice- Admiral Berkeley, whose 

 wife was his aunt, and who invited him to share 

 his quarters until his guest had recovered from 

 the fatigues of his voyage. Neither the Admiral's 

 pressing invitation, however, to regard his house 

 as a home, nor the gaieties of Lisbon, could induce 

 Mr Lennox, who had now become Lord March, 

 to absent himself from his regimental duties for 

 a single day. Without losing a moment he made 

 his way on horseback to the headquarters of the 

 army, and reported himself to Sir Arthur Welles- 

 ley, Commander - in - Chief, who immediately ap- 

 pointed him to his personal staff, which consisted 

 of the first Lord Raglan, then Lord Fitzroy 

 Somerset ; of the latter's nephew, the seventh Duke 

 of Beaufort, then Marquis of Worcester ; of Lord 

 George Lennox, Lord William Russell. Lord 



