LADY LOVAT 35T 



certainties inseparable from the tilling of the soil. Lord 

 Lovat was always found in his place in the House of 

 Lords when matters affecting Scotland were discussed. 

 He was, in fact, the truest type of the Highland 

 gentleman.' — From the County Gentleman. 



Lord Lovat leaves a widow and three sons and five 

 daughters. His eldest son, Simon, who will succeed 

 to the property in three years, is at present at Oxford. 

 Let us earnestly hope that he may prove a worthy 

 representative of his father. Young as he is, he pro- 

 mises to be so, and a valued head of the Clan of Eraser, 

 and he has every opportunity for becoming great and 

 good and universally beloved. 



Yet another dear friend. Colonel the Hon. Alastair 

 Edward Eraser of Lovat, and who saw a great deal of 

 service in the Crimea, died previously to his brother, 

 Lord Lovat, and, like the latter, was a veritable ' chip 

 of the old block ' in every particular. He was, as I can 

 vouch for, as true as steel in times when his help and 

 advice were needed. ' When I was weak he made me 

 strong.' I can truly say this. The fact of writing 

 these lines evokes sad memories. Three of my best 

 friends gone, though the remembrance of them recalls 

 the brighter side of many a picture in which they 

 figured— pictures of affection, hope and promise, youth 

 and ripening manhood, a united family and a loved 

 home. I must not dwell further on such scenes as 

 these, but all who read these lines may know that each 

 and all of these my friends died with a happy con- 

 fidence in God's great mercy. A happy death is easily 

 recognised ; when men die with such convictions it is 

 easily visible on their countenances ; they feel sure 



