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(afterwards Lord Justice Chitty) in the cliair, when 

 Colonel R. J. M. Buller returned thanks for the " Army 

 and Navy " in a speech that appears to have been very 

 acceptable to his audience. It was just after Sir George 

 CoUey's sad fiasco at Majuba Hill, and Colonel Buller 

 made a pathetic reference to that event. He had been 

 intended for the Bar, and was reading with that view at 

 Lincoln's Inn when the Crimean War broke out, and 

 turned his attention to the Army. He joined the 2nd 

 Staffordshire Militia in 1854, and in 1855 obtained a 

 commission by purchase in the Grenadier Guards. He 

 served in Canada from April, 1862, to September, 1864, 

 was Instructor in Musketry from May, 1862, to June, 

 1868, and was on the staff at Dublin during Lord Car- 

 lisle's Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, about the years 1859 

 and 1860. He got his first promotion in 1858, and his 

 latest in 1881, and was placed on half-pay in 1882. He 

 was a handsome, well-built man, over six feet high. 

 From a boy he was a quick observer, and had a remark- 

 ably good memory. He was a good conversationalist, a 

 general favourite, and few men had more friends. He 

 was fond of hunting from his school days, and became a 

 staunch sr.pporter of the North Staffordshire Hunt. He 

 also hunted regularly with the Meynell, was well known 

 in the Badminton and the Bramham Moor countries, and 

 in his Oxford days hunted with the Bicester. He married 

 Marianne, daughter of Mr. William Davenport, not long 

 before his death. One of his best horses was Horniblow, 

 an old steeplechaser, and fine, bold jumper, once the 

 property of Colonel Blundell. This horse, whilst owned 

 by Colonel Blundell, ran in the Liverpool Grand National 

 about the year 1860, and won several hunt and military 

 races about that time. Besides Horniblow, Colonel Regi- 

 nald had some special favourites, amongst which we may 

 mention the Count, formerly belonging to his brother. 

 Colonel Coote Buller, Mariner, Leo, Milksop, Paul, and 

 Rhoda, the latter a very good dark chestnut mare. 

 Mariner and Leo were ridden by him up to the last. One 



