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his own with the best of them, in any country, to-day, in 

 spite of the fact that it was in 1846 that he first saw the 

 light at Limber. They say that a woman is only as old as 

 she looks, and a man is certainly only as old as he feels ; 

 so that, in spite of the fact that the years have silvered 

 his hair, they have left him with the figure, the nerve, 

 and the high spirits of a youth. Always a good judge of 

 a horse and a hound, and with a perfect knowledge of 

 pedigree, there are few to-day who can equal him on 

 the kennel flags or in the hunter show ring, and his 

 services are always in great requisition at all the principal 

 horse shows in the British Isles. 



Mr. Eichardson married Victoria, Countess of Yar- 

 borough, in 1881, and there are no two more popular 

 individuals in any Hunt than the Squire of Healing and his 

 wife.* Their son, now at Harrow, can go with the best 

 of us during his holidays, and with such parents it will 

 be surprising if he does not turn out as fine a horseman 

 as his father ; for Lady Yarborough, in her day, had 

 few if any equals across country, and her knowledge of 

 hounds and hunting was superior to any other lady of 

 her time. 



Mr. Eichardson comes of a very old Lincolnshire family 

 that settled in the country at the beginning of the sixteenth 

 century, and country gentlemen, devoted to field sports, 

 they have been to this day. i\.lways keen followers of 

 "the sport of kings," they were not unknown on the turf 

 either, for Mr. William Eichardson, of Kirton Lindsey, a 

 great grand-uncle, won the Gold Cup and the Chester Cup 

 with Conqueror in 1788. The son of Mr. William Eichard- 

 son, "Johnny Maunsell" as he used to be called, was 

 educated at Harrow under the late Dean Butler, and the 

 love of athletics, the seed of which had l^een sown in North 

 Lincolnshire, was duly fostered there. His skill at cricket 

 soon became manifest, for he was in the '64 and '65 elevens 

 that beat Eton, and he took the school cup for the best 



* Mr. Eichardson and Lady Yarborough now Imnt from Edmunthorpe Hall, 

 Oakham, having let Healing Manor to Captain and Mrs. Portman. 



