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for him the appointment of Inspector of sacks on the Great 

 Northern Railway ; but he soon had enough of it, and his wife 

 shortly after coming into a little property, enabled this great 

 horseman to settle down quietly, and live the rest of his days 

 in comparative comfort. 



Captain Becher died after a brief illness on the nth of 

 October, 1864, aged 67, and was buried at Willesden Cemetery. 



HENRY, THIRD MARQUIS OF WATERFORD 



Few probably of those who only knew him by repute as the 

 hero of those madcap escapades which caused the " Wild 

 Marquis" to be regarded as a "holy terror" by law-abiding 

 people in the early " forties " of the last century, were aware of 

 the good results which accrued when the wild oats, which had 

 attracted so much public attention in the sowing, were finally 

 gathered in. For it is not too much to say that during the 

 last seventeen years of his life, when, well and happily married, 

 he settled down amongst his own people for good and all, he 

 set an example which might be copied with advantage by 

 many another of his class. 



It is good to know that the best and brightest traits of 

 his character, both as sportsman and country gentleman, have 

 now been chronicled as they deserve, and commented upon by 

 the writer (Mr. Forbes) of a most interesting introduction to 

 the " Hunting Diary " kept by the subject of our memoir from 

 1840 to 1849, and published in 1901 by his great-nephew, the 

 present Marquis of Waterford, and from which we venture to 

 quote at length. 



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