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of the well-known Dilliorn horses was Bowsprit, bought 

 in the early fifties from Mr. John Yarde Buller, a good 

 horse, but a puller. Old Jack Leedham used to say of 

 him, and of the Bullers, in his broad vernacular, " They 

 sen they canna hould him at his fences. Ah dunna see as 

 they troyen mutch ! " 



Colonel Ernest Henry Manningham Buller, the 

 youngest of the brothers, came to a most sad and un- 

 timely end, a few months after his brother Reginald's 

 death. He was returning from London to his quarters 

 at Woolwich by a midnight train from Charing Cross, 

 and, getting out at his station on the wrong side, was run 

 into by a light engine, and crushed so severely against 

 the platform that he only survived the accident about 

 three hours. He belonged to the Kifle Brigade, like two 

 of his brothers, and had seen service in South Africa 

 and elsewhere. He was A.D.C. to Lord Chelmsford in 

 the unlucky Zulu campaign of 1879, and at the time of 

 his death commanded a battalion of the Rifle Brigade. 

 The writer would be inclined to give Colonel Ernest as 

 high a place as any of the family as a good man across 

 country ; he was determined and plucky, with good hands 

 and seat, and could generally hold his own in a good 

 thing with anybody. He was the youngest of the family, 

 and was only forty-nine when the lamentable accident 

 occurred which closed a career full of distinction and 

 promise. He was never married. Tipperary, an Irish 

 horse, was perhaps the best mount he ever had. 



Major-General Edmund M. Manningham Buller also 

 belonged to the Rifle Brigade, and retired with the rank 

 of Major-General, after seeing a good deal of service in 

 Africa and Canada, and elsewhere. For a time he held 

 the command of the Lichfield Regimental District. He 

 was a zealous officer, and a good sportsman, either with 

 hounds, gun, or rod. He was not quite so regular a 

 follower of these hounds as most of his brothers, owing to 

 the fact that for a good part of his time he was away on 

 military duty, and in later years was living at Brocton 



