150 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



is the best agricultural minister this country ever had. 

 There came also at this time W. W. Asquith, brother to 

 H. H., and there was Cecil Chapman, well known now as 

 a Police Magistrate. There were many others, but I 

 knew all the above well, barring the Asquiths, of whom 

 I may say that W. W. is a year older than H. H., and he 

 became an assistant master at Clifton College from 1876 

 to 1910. 



Among an older lot, not at our college, whom I met 

 that first term was Archibald Stuart Wortley, then just 

 going down, and so well known afterwards as an artist 

 and a pigeon shot. He gave his brother and me much 

 sage advice. Another was J. A. Doyle, fellow of All 

 Souls and a graduate of Balliol. It is seldom that a 

 Freshman makes friends with a Fellow, but I made 

 friends with Doyle from the very outset, and it was 

 through me that he first took an interest in fox-terrierfe, 

 of which he ultimately became one of the best judges. 

 In the British thoroughbred he had always been interested, 

 like his namesake, Sir Francis Doyle, also of All Souls, 

 but fox-terriers constituted a new departure, and like 

 everything else he did, he studied the subject thoroughly 

 and, what is more, effectually. 



Then there was Frank Parker, a brother of my friend 

 Sydney Parker, and to him I sold a fox-terrier almost at 

 once, for one of his friends, though he too was at the end 

 of his University career. Lord Randolph Churchill, also, 

 was still at Oxford, but I think it was his last term. 

 I saw him once or twice, but no one at that time had even 

 dreamed of him as likely to do great things in public life 

 unless, indeed, he dreamed such a dream himself. There 

 were many stories about him probably untrue but 

 none suggestive of future eminence, and, when a year or 

 so later he first stood for Woodstock, some of the Radical 

 dons went there to assist his opponent as a protest against 

 this shocking misuse of ducal influence. However, Lord 

 Randolph got in all right and we know how far he made 

 good. 



