APPENDICES 



The following communication from the Duke of Rutland 

 was kindly sent me by him whilst the book was in the 

 press, and is inserted here : — 



"John Henry, 5Th Duke of Rutland. 



"Born Jan. 4th, 1778 ; educated , and at Trinity 



College, Cambridge, where he took his M.A. degree 1797. 



" On coming of age he took the management of the hounds 

 into his own hands, and kept an accurate journal of their 

 performances for many years. Through a long and active 

 life he was remarkable for the thoroughness with which he 

 did all that his hand found to do. While attached to field 

 sports, especially hunting and shooting, he never allowed 

 them to interfere with the discharge of any duty, and would 

 frequently in the winter rise at 5 or 6 a.m. in order to trans- 

 act his correspondence before breakfast. This correspond- 

 ence, public and private, was most voluminous, and was 

 carried on without the assistance of a private Secretary, or 

 any of the mechanical aids now so frequently used to help a 

 busy man. In those days the offices of Lord Lieutenant of 

 a County and Colonel of its Militia were no sinecures, and 

 in addition to them there was hardly an Institution in the 

 Town or County of Leicester in which he did not take an 

 active interest. 



" Wherever he had property he founded Medical Clubs, and 

 established the Allotment system, the latter against much 

 opposition from the Political Economists of that day. 



" On the 50th anniversary of his Lord Lieutenancy, his 

 Statue was erected by public subscription in the Market 



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