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same munificent liberality as when his lord- 

 ship was able to participate in the sport he 

 so generously provided for others, and those 

 mostly consisting of his tenants. In Lincoln- 

 shire he was significantly styled " Yarborough 

 the Good," and in respectful veneration for 

 his memory a memorial gateway is about to 

 be erected, which is to comprise a statue of 

 the late Earl placed on an archway across the 

 public highway, where it enters Brocklesby 

 Park from the Brioo- road. This will be done 

 by subscription of the tenantry and gentlemen 

 of the county, but principally by the former, 

 at a cost of ^2,000. The noble Earl, now 

 master of the hounds, has only been in 

 possession of them a little more than twelve 

 months, but that brief period has been quite 

 sufficient to confirm the ever-cherished hope 

 that he would inherit that love for the chase 

 for which his ancestors for so many genera- 

 tions have been so highly famed. But yet 

 there is another and a most pleasing cause for 

 rejoicing in the fond anticipation that the 

 prosperity of the Brocklesby Hunt will con- 

 tinue to increase ; the Countess of Yarborough 

 is as fond of hunting as her husband. Her 

 ladyship's equestrian accomplishments in the 



