Mr. E. P. Wilson 



one of the very few up at the finish was the subject of our 

 memoir. Giffard, the horse who carried him so brilHantly 

 on this occasion, and on which he rode seventeen miles 

 home without hitting a stone, being afterwards described by 

 Captain " Doggie " Smith, who had previously owned and 

 "made" him, as one of the best hunters he ever rode. 



In 1872 Mr. Jenkins, who is J. P. and D.L. for Monmouth- 

 shire, and J. P. for Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, and Glamorgan, 

 married Lady Caroline Anne Villiers, younger daughter of 

 George Augustus, 6th Earl of Jersey, and settled down at 

 Frenchay Park, near Bristol, where he now resides. 



Mr. E. P. WILSON 



Born at Ilmington, in Warwickshire, in 1846, the subject of 

 our memoir early developed that love for the saddle which 

 was to bear such good fruit in after life. For instance, we hear 

 of him when only four years old, being strapped to his pony for 

 safety, and " blooded by the huntsman of the Warwickshire. 

 That he met with every encouragement from the authorities 

 at the "Home Office" may be gathered from the fact that 

 orders were given that he should stay away from school one 

 day a week expressly to go hunting, it being his father's wish 

 that his son should learn to ride before anything. 



At quite an early age he was constantly riding with great 

 success at local hunt meetings, and in 1867 we find him winning 

 his first important race, viz. the Birmingham Grand Annual, 

 on Tiger, belonging to his father, a victory he followed up two 

 years later on Mean wood. 



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