1871 — i88i. 89 



lations and hurried utterance of the one contrasting 

 strangely with the bland, measured tones, unmoved 

 countenance, and twinkling eye of the other. He 

 liked to see young ones keen, but preferred that all 

 should curb their excitement when they spoke to him. 

 *' George, you are excited," he was once heard to say 

 to a man who came to him burning with a red-hot 

 grievance; "go away, and come back when you are 

 cool." This same calm immobility accompanied him 

 on all occasions, and, backed by a very good memory 

 and the soundest common sense, made him a parti- 

 cularly good and clear-headed man of business. But 

 whatever his outward coldness, there was with it no 

 ill-nature, no unkindness, and, most marked of all, no 

 injustice. Hence he was above other masters beloved 

 and respected by his servants, than whom there were 

 no more sincere mourners among the many who fol- 

 lowed him to his last resting-place in Bagborough 

 Churchyard. 



His generosity did not end with his death. He 

 provided by his will that his small property at Exford, 

 where he had built kennels, stables, and dwellings, at 

 a cost of ^7, 000, might be leased for a term of twenty- 

 one years by the master for the time being of the stag- 

 hounds and any four members of the committee, so 



