Colonel the Hon. William Lawson 



years later Major Crawley's horse was third to Wild Man of 

 Borneo and Cathal in the Grand National. 



Though best known to the world of sport as a gentleman 

 rider of superior attainments, Sir Cuthbert had always been a 

 fine athlete, as witness the many trophies won by him for 

 running, rowing, and bicycling. 



In 1896 he married Kathleen, daughter of the late Mr. 

 Rowland Scovell of Fairholme, Co. Dublin, and on retiring 

 from the Army, the following year, settled down at his family 

 seat, Maunsel, near Bridgwater, Somersetshire, where he trained 

 a few steeplechasers for his own amusement, and it was on one 

 of these, named Athelwulf, in the Upbrooke Hurdle Race at 

 Newton Abbot, in 1902, that the lamented baronet had his last 

 winning ride. In 1904 Sir Cuthbert gave up racing, and 

 giving himself to hunting was at the time of his death 

 acting as whipper-in to his wife's pack of harriers. 



COLONEL THE HON. WILLIAM LAWSON 



The popular sportsman whose name heads this chapter, and 

 who has for some time past been generally recognised as one 

 of the hardest and best riders we have over Leicestershire, rode 

 his first point-to-point race as a subaltern of the Scots Guards 

 in 1893. In that year the ist Brigade of Guards Point-to- Point 

 Race was held in the Pytchley country, near Long Buckby ; 

 the line being chosen by Mr. Foster, himself a very fine rider 

 to hounds. The course was virtually three sides of a square, 

 over a fine natural hunting country, and there were only the 

 two turning flags at the far side of it. The Brigade entertained 



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