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Derby, she having set out the day before us. We both arrived too late for the 

 tram, so she put post-horses to her barouche, and she and Lady Constance, a 

 blooming English girl, posted it for thirty-six miles, reaching Trentham at ten in 

 the evening, an open barouche, and cool enough." After describing the place, the 

 lake, and the gardens, Prescott concludes, "It is the temple of taste, and its 

 charming mistress created it all. As I was coming away, she asked me to walk 

 with her into the gardens, and led me to a spot where several men were at work 

 liaving a great hole prepared. A large evergreen tree was held up by the 

 gardener, and I was requested to help set it in its place, and to throw some 

 shovelfuls of earth on it. In fact, I was to leave an evergreen memorial, ' which,' 

 said she, ' my children shall see hereafter, and know by whom it was planted.' " 



It is scarcely necessary to explain that tlie Duchess of 

 Sutherland here spoken of with so much enthusiasm was 

 Duchess Harriet (wife of the second Duke, and sisLer of the 

 Earl of Carlisle), so well known in the first half of the 

 Victorian reign, not only as the attached personal friend 

 of the Queen, and for many years her Mistress of the 

 ilobes, but as a warm friend and supporter of all that was 

 good in the paths of art and taste and of public spirit and 

 philanthropy. Lady Constance, above referred to as " a 

 blooming English girl," some three years afterwards 

 married Earl Grosvenor, and eventually became Duchess 

 of Westminster. Lord and Lady Grosvenor are thus 

 referred to in a hunting song written in 1853, by Egerton 

 War bur ton, entitled " Farmer Dobbin " : 



"I see'a the 'Arl ov Grosvenor, a loikely lad to roicl ; 

 I see'd a soight worth aw the rest, his farenchy young broid." 



The present writer well remembers, when he was 

 occasionally able to get a day with Mr. Davenport's 

 hounds as a youngster, some fifty years ago, how much he 

 was impressed with the grace and beauty of Lady Constance 

 Leveson-Gower, and of the Marchioness of Staflbrd, then a 

 young bride, afterwards the third Duchess of Sutherland, 

 both of whom used, now and then, to hunt with the North 

 Stafibrdshire Hounds when the family were at Trentham. 



We have already said that this is not quite the place 

 for a detailed history of the House of Sutherland, but a 

 few brief historical details may be of interest, having 

 regard to the close connection between the Hunt and the 

 noble family at Trentham. 



