his musical activities he was fortunate in being able to 

 combine his enjoyment of good music with the happi- 

 ness, which was always very real and genuine, of doing 

 something for the pleasure of others. He was President 

 of the Dorset Orchestral Association from 1897 to his 

 death. 



From time to time he showed his interest in politics 

 his views were those of a c stern and unbending Tory ' 

 by taking part in political meetings, and in the opera- 

 tions of the Primrose League, of which, from 1886 

 onwards, he was a c Knight Almoner'. Sometimes 

 politics and music were combined ; and several of the 

 concerts at which he performed were connected with 

 the Primrose League. The last occasions on which he 

 went outside his parish were those of the Parliamentary 

 election of January 1910 and the County Council elec- 

 tion a few weeks later, when he drove over to the Poll 

 at Morden and recorded his vote. Happily these polling- 

 days were more peaceful than he had sometimes known 

 for instance in 1880, when his diary notes (on April ^): 

 ' To Bere with Bertie to see Drax (candidate for Ware- 

 ham). With him to the Poll a regular scrimmage with 

 sticks, etc., and a few heads cracked/ His Conservatism 

 was of the old and good kind recognizing and believing 

 thoroughly in class distinctions, as based on differences 

 of birth and education, but also recognizing to the full, 

 and carrying out, the duties of the better educated to 

 their humbler neighbours, and helping them to make a 



