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which no one was more quaHhed to offer. No kinder, 

 truer friend ever existed to those who were worthy of 

 his friendship, tuition and assistance, in all matters of 

 sport. His loss to me was irreparable, for I respected 

 and idolized him. It is many years now since he 

 passed away, and since that time we have again had to 

 mourn the loss of his son, the late Simon Lord Lovat, 

 who was, in truth, a worthy successor to his father, 

 and possessed all the many virtues of the latter. A 

 more thorough Christian gentleman, a truer friend, or 

 a more finished all-round sportsman, perhaps never 

 lived. I cannot adequately describe the universal 

 grief it was to his relatives, friends and tenantry, when 

 he who was the life and soul and leading spirit in 

 every undertaking for the benefit of all around him 

 was cut off in the very prime of life ; and I think that 

 his sudden death was one of the heaviest troubles 

 which I have, even in a long life of many griefs, ever 

 experienced. Doubtless he was one of the most 

 perfect of men, and not only was he so acknowledged 

 to be by all his friends, but even by those whose 

 interests were opposed to his. These one and all 

 were forced to acknowledge that a more perfectly just 

 man never existed ; and if this was the opinion of 

 those who knew his external life only, it may be well 

 imagined how great an affection I, who almost lived 

 with him for many years, entertained for him. 



' The late Right Honourable Simon, fifteenth Baron 

 Lovat, was born in 1828, and succeeded to the title and 

 property of his father, Baron Thomas Alexander 

 Lovat, in 1875. He v/as honorary colonel of the 

 Second Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron High- 



