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from mentioning; that fact, hut one day, hearing 

 from his hox a dispute ahout the hattlefiekl in 

 which hoth disputants Avere in error, he corrected 

 them, simply adding, " I happened to he there." 

 He died in 1887, aged ninety-four years, aided 

 in his declining days hy the Earl of Alhemarle, 

 who had fought in the same campaign. 



William Clements, of Canterhury, who had 

 driven the " Tally-Ho " and "Eagle" coaches 

 hetween Canterhury and London before the nine- 

 teenth century had grown out of its teens, died 

 in 1891, aged ninety-one. He was " the last of 

 the coachmen," yet, two years later, in the early 

 part of 1893, we find the death recorded of Philip 

 (commonly called " Tim ") Carter, aged eighty- 

 eight. He it Avas who drove the " lied Hover " 

 on June 19th, 1831, from the " Elephant and 

 Castle " to Brighton in 1 hours 21 minutes — a 

 pace then greatly in excess of anything before 

 accomjilished on that road. The occasion was 

 the opening of William IV. 's first Parliament, 

 and the haste was for the double purpose of 

 speedily carrying the King's Speech to Brighton 

 and of advertising the "Red E-over " itself, then 

 a newly-established coach. He did not run light, 

 as many of the record-making coaches used, but 

 carried fourteen passengers on that trip. 



A year after Carter's death Harry Ward passed 

 away, August 4th, 1894, aged eighty-one. He 

 Avas one of a family of ten, and the last, except 

 his elder brother Charles, of Avhom mention Avill 

 presently be made. Their father had himself 



