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ment as Registrar for the West Riding of 

 Yorkshire was an acceptable acquisition to 

 his private resources ; soon afterwards he gave 

 up his hounds entirely. In the spring of 

 1863 he was called away from the cares of 

 worldly strife, deeply regretted by hosts of 

 friends. His unassuming manner and hospi- 

 tality secured to him those kind feelings of 

 regard which are ever an English gentleman's 

 pride to boast of, and it must have been a sadly 

 splenetic, vitiated taste that could ever have 

 breathed a sentiment of reproach against him. 

 On Mr. Hodgson's retirement a committee 

 took the affairs in hand, with Mr. Greene, of 

 Rollestone, at the head, and it is worthy of 

 remark that Mr. Greene, up to that period, 

 was the only county gentleman who had 

 ever been placed in a similar position. His 

 great popularity and influence maintained for 

 Leicestershire its long-accustomed fame, and 

 it was during this period that Mr. Assheton 

 Smith, then hunting the Tedworth country, 

 but passing through from a visit to his friend 

 Sir Richard Sutton in the Burton country, 

 met at Rollestone, when I believe the largest 

 field on record assembled from far and near 

 to bid him welcome, where, in by-gone years, 



