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Without the help of Mrs. Rawes and Mrs. Rudge 

 the chapter treating of the mastership of their father, 

 Mr. Lane, would have been more slender even than 

 it is. Both Mr. A. Kingston and Mr. J. J. Cross have, 

 at one time or another, kept albums of newspaper 

 cuttings and reports which have been most useful. 

 Mr. Ley of Trehill, who has discarded his pink coat, 

 has fortunately kept his old Haldon buttons, which 

 are reproduced. Some of the former masters, too, 

 have been most kind and patient, namely : Mr. 

 Studd, Major St. Maur, Mr. Vicary, Mr. Brunskill 

 and Major Cooke Hurle. Others who have helped in 

 one way or another in giving or procuring informa- 

 tion are : Mr. Parnell Tucker, Mr. R. Phillpotts, Miss 

 Simpson, Mr. B. D. Webster, Mr. J. Gould Drew, 

 Mr. R. M. Bourne, Mr. J. D. P. Goodwin, the Rev. 

 A. Woolcombe, Frank Collings and Philip Back. 



At one time I feared that it would be impossible to 

 carry out my intention of giving a likeness of every 

 master. Thanks, however, to Mr. A. C. Loveys for 

 searching out one of Westlake ; to Mr. F. Marshal 

 for unearthing one of Ross when I had almost aban- 

 doned hope ; to the Torbay Royal Yacht Club for 

 allowing me to copy the one of Lord Haldon in its 

 possession ; to the proprietors of the County Gentle- 

 man for free permission to reproduce the portrait of 

 Mr. Studd from Land and Water, of which they own 

 the copyright, and to those already mentioned as 

 having contributed portraits, the blanks were at last 

 all made good. Colonel Taylor, also, supplied a photo- 

 graph of Templer's colleague the Rev. Harry Taylor. 



