CHAPTER XXVII 



MEMINISSE JUVABIT 



The late Lord and Lady Londonderry Sir George Wombwell 

 Newburgh Priory and Wynyard Corcyra The Lascelles Family 

 Lord Harewood and Pentecost Cantilever's Cambridgeshire 

 John Burns and the Sporting League His Challenge and its 

 Consequences The Ailesbury Duck and the Moated Grange 

 Dolly : A Love Story A Laughable " Little Episode " Abington 

 Baird 



N EARING the end of this rigmarole, I feel dis- 

 inclined to bid good-bye to the memories of 

 many dear, good people whom I have known, 

 and to whose merits I am so little able to do justice. I 

 have already written of many of them, but some were 

 almost too good to be dealt with hastily. For example, 

 the late Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, both 

 of whom died all too soon. I often wonder whether 

 he did not derive fatal damage from a visit they paid 

 to Cobham a year or so before his death, as it was 

 desperately bad weather at the time. They made a 

 point of seeing many of the mares, and indeed bought 

 one, named Christie Johnstone, which was afterwards 

 renamed Christie. After that visit Lord Londonderry 

 had an attack of pneumonia. He recovered, but may 

 have suffered permanent damage. 



Casting back, I think I first saw Lord Londonderry 

 when I was hunting from Oxford and he was at one of 

 the meets of the Bicester with his friend, Lord Helmsley, 



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