Gentlemen Riders 



Anglo-Saxon language pure and undefiled, was allowed by all 

 who heard it to be one of " Bee's " happiest efforts. 



Strange to say, the only one of his audience on whom his 

 peroration seemed to make no impression was the very person 

 for whom it was intended. Nor was " Bee " Coventry's wrath 

 appeased when he heard the reason. Poor Mr. Canney was 

 deaf and dumb ! 



Captain Coventry was born in 1842, and educated at Eton, 

 afterwards holding a commission in the Grenadier Guards. 

 A good sportsman and a most popular member of society, he 

 died amidst general regret on the 29th of June, 1885. 



LORD WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE ' 



If ever there was a man of whom it might be said with perfect 

 truth that he combined in himself every quality that goes to 

 make the perfection of a country gentleman and sportsman, of 

 a surety it was the nobleman named above, whose all too pre- 

 mature death was a source of genuine grief, not only to his 

 own immediate friends, but to all true lovers of sport through- 

 out the kingdom. 



Born in 1846, Lord Willoughby de Broke received his 

 education at Eton, thence going to Christchurch, Oxford. 



It was during this period, in 1868, that we find him sporting 

 silk for the first time in a steeplechase at Aylesbury, when, 

 under the nom-de-course of " Mr. Ashby," he rode ** Mr. 

 Meldon's" chestnut horse, No Name, in the Undergraduates 

 Race, and won it, in a field of seven competitors, " Mr. 

 Meldon" being none other than Mr. John Cookson, who after- 

 wards became famous as Master of the Morpeth Hounds. 



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