Royal Ascot 



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for many years Master of the Staghounds and Foxhounds in 



Norfolk, and may be said to have started the Norfolk Meets. 



1 822-1 895. — Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, 



was born October 29th, 1854, and succeeded his father in 



1S76, He was 

 educated at Har- 

 row, and some 

 years later joined 

 the Rifle Bri- 

 gade, with which 

 corps he served 

 in India. While 

 a t W i n d s o r , 

 where he was 

 quartered in 

 1878, Lord 

 Ribblesdale took 

 advantage of 

 every occasion 

 which H a m p - 

 shire afforded for 

 the enjoyment of 

 sport in the 

 hunting-field. In 

 1880 his lord- 

 ship was ap- 

 pointed Lord-in-Waiting to the Queen. In 1892 he was 

 made Master of the Buckhounds, and held that position till 

 1895. A somewhat fierce agitation broke out during his 

 regime against the continuance of the ancient sport of Stag- 

 hunting. But good sportsmen and true were at hand to 



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LOKU KIBBLKSDALE 



