Mr. G. W. Lushington 



despatches, and medal with clasp); Egypt, 1882, when he was 

 present at Kassassin, Tel-el-Kebir, and capture of Cairo 

 (mentioned in despatches, medal with clasp, 3rd Class Medjidie, 

 and Khedive's Star) ; Nile Expedition, 1884 (mentioned in 

 despatches); commanded Cork district, 1 898-1903; retired 

 1906. 



In 1885, Sir Hugh married the Honourable Rose Elizabeth 

 Bingham, daughter of the fourth Baron Clanmorris, by whom 

 he has one son, Dermot, who is heir to his cousin the late 

 Colonel McCalmont of Cheveley Park, Newmarket. 



Mr. G. W. lushington 



Though in the steeplechase field there are still plenty of 

 opportunities for the gentleman rider of the period to distin- 

 guish himself in, the same cannot be said with regard to race- 

 riding on the flat, which in former years was so popular an 

 amusement with the best horsemen of the day, for the simple 

 reason that the ground has been cut from under their feet, as 

 it were, by the gradual abandonment of their favourite meetings, 

 first and foremost in the list being the Bibury Club, the day 

 devoted to which was for many years one of the most popular 

 features of the now defunct Stockbridge meeting, numbering, 

 as it did, in its ranks all the very best gentlemen riders in 

 the land. 



The club, it is true, still exists, with Salisbury as its 

 battle-ground, but it is not too much to say that its glories have 

 departed, never, we fear, to return, and whereas formerly the 

 amateur flat-race riders were as plentiful as blackberries, at 

 Stockbridge, Heaton Park (Lord Wilton's private meeting), 



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