3IO The Pytchley Htint, Past and Present, 



fBsthetic, wlietlier in art or literatare, this Prince of the 

 Turf had a true and deep admiration ; and his rooms in 

 ^'the Albany,'^ as well as his honse at Langton, were 

 crammed with choice engravings, pictures, and valuable 

 ohjets-d'ai't 



His death in 1882 — long foreshadowed by a softening 

 of the brain — deprived the Turf of one it ill could spare, 

 and left a gap in the Jockey Club which will not easily be 

 filled. 



LOED HENLEY. 



In point of resemblance, scarcely one of the forty 

 figures in the *^ Crick '"' picture is more reminding of the 

 original than that of Lord Henley, who, seated on his 

 white-faced bay, seems to be considering the probability 

 of a find in Watford cover, should the " Crick " draw 

 fail. If the fox be at home and a good gallop follow, no 

 one is more likely to see it than the noble owner of the 

 picturesque mansion known as Watford Court, his 

 riding-weight being no impediment to his getting over 

 the big fences and many>acred grasses of the region 

 round about. The educational advantages of Eton and 

 Oxford not having been thrown away upon one who was 

 intellectually capable of appreciating them, his County 

 Town found in him a representative, able, moderate, 

 industrious ; with whom, for a time, it was well satisfied. 

 Declining, however, to adopt the seven-leagued boots in 

 which his constituency were striding towards the 

 extremities of Radicalism, the city of '^ cordwainers " 

 found in Mr. Bradlaugh a representative more to their 

 mind; and so removed from the House of Commons 



