84 THE QUORN HUNT 



showed tolerably good sport during the previous 

 season. Being - thus more free to follow his own bent, 

 he went in more for racing. Lord Foley died on 

 the morning of the 16th April 1833, after a few days' 

 illness. In his journal Mr. Raikes says the kindest 

 possible things of his deceased friend, whose wife was 

 sister to the Duke of Leinster, and by whom he had 

 eight children. The Worcestershire property, including 

 Witley Court, was sold for ^890,000, that being the sole 

 means by which his eldest son, who was most anxious to 

 pay off his father's racing and other debts, could secure 

 a modest income. The purchasers, it is hardly necessary 

 to state, were the trustees of Lord Dudley's will on behalf 

 of Lord Ward, then a minor, who succeeded to Lord 

 Dudley's enormous wealth. 



