Gentlemen Riders 



Service, we have said about all we can say. That there is no 

 Royal road to success in any undertaking, no matter what, 

 we are all of us aware, or should be ; and that Captain de 

 Crespigny quite recognises the fact is evinced by the hard 

 work he subjects himself to in order to attain his object, for 

 it is no exaggeration to say, that what with hunting, schooling 

 gallops, steeplechasing, and polo, he may fairly be said to live 

 in the saddle all the year round. Should it not fall to his 

 lot in the course of his riding career to attain the object so 

 dear to the gentleman rider, and ride a winner of the Grand 

 National, the reader may be assured it will not be Captain de 

 Crespigny's fault. 



Joining the 2nd Life Guards in 1895, the subject of our 

 memoir served with great distinction in the Boer War, being 

 twice mentioned in dispatches — once for special bravery at 

 Rensberg — and was severely wounded at Poplar Grove. 



In 1903 he served with the West African Frontier Force, 

 where he was again wounded. 



Captain de Crespigny was also A.D.C. to the Viceroy of 

 India from 1900 until 1902. 



Mr. C. R. CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY 



The Brigade of Guards has always been prolific in the matter 

 of gentlemen riders. Colonels Knox, Harford, and " Doddy " 

 Johnstone, Captain Coventry, Lord Charles Innes Ker, and 

 Lord Manners being all names to conjure with at the period 

 they were riding ; and the same remark may be said to apply 

 with equal felicity to the brilliant young horseman — a Champion 



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