Gentlemen Riders 



in England and Scotland twice over, in reality I always 

 preferred hunting to race-riding." 



On the death of Lord Yarborough in 1875, Mr. Richardson 

 assumed the management of the Brocklesby hounds, and in the 

 same year he also took the command of the ist Lincolnshire 

 Light Horse, which he resigned on the coming of age of the 

 present peer. 



He also fought the Brigg division of Lincolnshire four 

 times in the Conservative interest, winning the bye-election 

 of 1894 by seventy votes, a great triumph, seeing that when 

 he first contested the seat, the Radical majority was two 

 thousand six hundred. 



On the i6th of July, 1881, Mr. Richardson married Victoria, 

 Countess of Yarborough, widow of the late Earl — herself one 

 of the most noted horsewomen of her time — by whom he has 

 had issue one son. 



Mr. H. CRAWSHAW 



(" peter") 



At no time, perhaps. In its history was steeplechasing in a more 

 flourishing condition than in the late sixties and seventies of 

 the past century ; for not only were Its patrons drawn from the 

 highest class of sporting society — such names as those of the 

 Duke of Hamilton, Lords Coventry, Stamford, and Poulett, 

 Sir William Throgmorton, and Mr. J. H. Houldsworth being 

 of themselves sufficient to " keep the tambourine a-rollin'," as 

 Mr. Jorrocks's famous huntsman, James PIgg, would have put 

 It — but its principal exponents, both riders and horses, were of 



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