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John Russell, rather than a Liberal of the modern type. 

 The present writer well remembers a red-hot Tory fox- 

 hunter saying to him, " Well, it would take a good deal 

 to make me vote against old Buller, when I see the way 

 he turns his sons out with hounds, and when I see the 

 young 'uns going so straight and well." 



The next of the brothers to leave us was Colonel 

 Frederick Charles Manningham Buller, of the Coldstreams, 

 a most kindly, genial sportsman and friend, and a quiet 

 gentlemanlike rider to hounds. He had some good horses 

 in his day, and went well for years with the North 

 Staffordshire Hounds, and also with the Meynell, riding 

 in a nice quiet style with plenty of courage and dash, 

 but without an atom of jealousy. He served in the 

 Egyptian campaign under Lord Wolseley, in 1882, was 

 present at Tel-el-Kebir, and died in January, 1884, at 

 Hopton Hall, his brother-in-law's place in Derbyshire. 

 He married, in 1881, Miss Alice Jessie Davenport, 

 dauohter of the former Master of the North Staffordshire 

 Hounds. His favourite horses were, perhaps, Charley 

 Brown, and a nearly thoroughbred mare, Gopsall, the 

 latter a queer-tempered one, but a real good conveyance 

 across country. His charger throughout the Egyptian 

 campaign was a good brown mare, which had carried him 

 well with hounds for several seasons, and it is worth 

 recording that this mare was the only charger in the 

 Brigade of Guards which had been through the whole 

 campaign, and which marched past her late Majesty 

 Queen Victoria at the review on the Horse Guards Parade. 



Colonel Reginald John Manningham Buller (the fourth 

 son), who died in August, 1888, was for many years a 

 prominent and distinguished member of the Hunt, and, 

 until failing health began to tell, there was no better or 

 more determined rider with these hounds than Colonel 

 Regge. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, 

 Oxford, went out in honours in 1853, and rowed No. 4 in 

 the boat race against Cambridge in the years 1852 and 1853, 

 Oxford winning on both occasions. The crew of 1852 



