^ Its Makers, Past and Present 



his keeping, were fulfilled with dignity and success. Lord 

 Coventry married in 1865 Lady Blanche Craven, third 

 daughter of William, second Earl of Craven. 



190C-1901. — On the resignation of Lord Coventry in 

 the autumn of 1900, the Mastership of the Buckhounds 

 was offered to, and accepted by, Lord Chesham. Charles 

 Crompton William Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham, P.C, 

 K.C.B., was born December 13th, 1850, and succeeded to 

 the title in 1882. He was educated at Eton, and formerly 

 was Captain in the loth Hussars, and Lieut. -Colonel and 

 Hon. Colonel of the Royal Bucks Hussars. On the out- 

 break of hostilities in South Africa he was appointed to 

 the command of the Lnperial Yeomanry with the rank 

 of Brigadier-General, a position he held with distinction, 

 subsequently becoming Inspector-General, with the rank of 

 Major-General. His lordship in 1877 married Lady Beatrice 

 Constance Grosvenor, second daughter of the first Duke of 

 Westminster. Although nominally holding the office of 

 Master of the Buckhounds until its extinction in 1901 — to 

 be exact, six months after the death of Queen Victoria — 

 Lord Chesham was occupied the whole time in South Africa, 

 and consequently Lord Churchill was gazetted Acting Master 

 at the same time that Lord Chesham was appointed to the 

 Mastership. 



Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, Baron 

 Churchill, K.C.V.O., was born October 23rd, 1864, and 

 on the death of his father in 1886 succeeded to the title 

 as third Baron. His lordship was Page-of-Honour to Her 

 late Majesty Queen Victoria from 18 76-1 881, and Lord-in- 

 Waiting from 1889-1892, and again from 1895 to her death 

 in 1 90 1. Since then Lord Churchill has been Lord-in- 



