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Forester, who died at his seat, Willey Park, Shropshire, 

 in the seventy-fourth year of his age, after having lived 

 for some time in comparative retirement. 



Lord Forester was a son of the first lord, who was better 

 known as Cecil Forester, one of the thorns in the side of Mr. 

 Meynell, who was accustomed to say, " First conies the fox out 

 of a covert, then Cecil Forester, and then my hounds." He was 

 born and lived a sportsman, and particularly a hunting man. 

 During his undergraduate days at Oxford he was well known 

 with Sir Thomas Mostyn's hounds, the Duke of Beaufort's, and 

 the Duke of Grafton's. After hunting in Leicestershire for a short 

 time on his own account he became master of the Belvoir in 1830, 

 during the minority of the eldest son of the Duke of Rutland, 

 and he remained at the head of that famous pack for something 

 like twenty-eight seasons. About 1858 he married the widow of 

 Lord Melbourne, and was presented at Syston with a testimonial, 

 which represented in silver a scene with his hounds. Goodall 

 was depicted in the act of dislodging a fox from a chestnut tree 

 in Croxton Park, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Forester, Sir 

 Thomas Whichcote, and Mr. Lickford (the last named the 

 " Father of the Hunt ") being grouped around, while a few 

 couples of favourite hounds were also brought in. Lord Forester, 

 who was an exceedingly handsome man, was, it may be remem- 

 bered, introduced by Sir Francis Grant into the picture of 

 "The Melton Breakfast." He at one time held some appoint- 

 ment in the Royal Household, but was never so well known in 

 London as his brother, and successor to the title, General, 

 or more familiarly known as Colonel Forester, Member for 

 Wenlock, and who was for some time Father of the House of 

 Commons. 



Only a little later the Ouorn men were grieved to 

 hear of the death of Mrs. Coupland, the wife of the 

 master, and on receipt of the mournful intelligence the 

 hounds, which were to have met at Radcliffe-on-the 

 Wreake, 1 were kept in kennel. 



1 From what has been said before in connection with the decease of Tom 

 Day and Sir Richard Sutton, this fixture had a curious connection with 

 deaths in the Quorn country. 



