EARL OF STAMFORD 



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was owing to his shooting in Scotland that his death was 

 attributed. He rented the deer forest of Aviemore, near 

 Glenmore, and having built a new wing to the lodge, he 

 proceeded to live in the lately erected portion before the 

 place was dry ; he contracted a chill, and a bad attack of 

 typhoid fever supervened ; but he recovered from that. 

 His constitution, however, was greatly weakened by 

 what he had gone through, and at Newmarket, whither 

 he went on his return from the North, he was quite a 

 wreck. Thus passed away a great sportsman, a kind 

 landlord, and an extremely popular master of hounds. 



January 1857 there was a shooting party at Bradgate Park, when on some 

 days nine guns, on others eleven, killed in seven days no fewer than 71 19 

 head, 2087 being pheasants, 523 hares, and 4394 rabbits. From November 

 1 1 to 20, both dates inclusive, Lord Stamford and party killed 889 partridges, 

 1076 pheasants, 1403 hares, and 593 rabbits. 



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