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cricket for Harrow and Cambridge, distinguished 

 himself by training and riding the winners of 

 the Grand National for two years in succession ; 

 the present Lord Kesteven, and many others. 

 We all of us revelled in the drag, and at certain 

 times Newmarket Heath occupied much of our 

 leisure. 



After leaving Cambridge, I had a spell of 

 about four years in the City at Lloyd's, and in 

 1875, in which year I was married, I joined a 

 manufacturing firm at Leeds. 



The indoor life in the surroundings of Leeds 

 was unendurable, and I set to work, in earnest 

 to study Land Agency, as a more congenial pro- 

 fession, being helped thereto by being given a 

 seat in the office of Mr. Constantine Moorsom, 

 agent to the Harewood estates, and by having 

 much work thrown open for my study and in- 

 spection in the offices of other kind friends who 

 were members of my profession. 



In 1880 I was appointed by Lord Beaconsfield 

 to the post of Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest 

 and the other Crown forests in Hampshire 

 five in all besides other properties. This en- 

 tailed, in addition to the work of the New Forest, 

 a tract of 92,000 acres, a good deal of travelling 

 about from one property to the other ; and from 

 the time of my appointment to that of my retire- 



