38 The Course, the Camp, the Chase 



Mr. Arthur Balfour and Lord Eandolph Churchill. The 

 latter did not show any remarkable promise, being chiefly 

 distinguished for not caring whom he " cheeked," whether 

 it was a bigger boy or a master. If he saw the opportunity 

 of saying something smart, he did not lose it through 

 shyness — or fear of the consequences. Another very dis- 

 tinguished Etonian of that epoch is Dr. Hubert Parry, who 

 was at Mr. Evans's house with me. We always expected 

 him to turn out a great musician. He was ever composing 

 songs, even in those days, and took his degree in music 

 before he left Eton. He played a very prominent part 

 in the House football eleven, helping us to win the 

 football cup for " My Dame's " in 1865. 



That famous athlete and sculptor, Mr. C. B. Lawes, was 

 also then at Eton. He succeeded in winning nearly every 

 athletic prize to be got there, in rowing and running ; and, 

 after being Captain of the Boats, passed on to Cambridge, 

 where he was stroke of the 'Varsity Eight, also winning the 

 half-mile, mile, and two-mile races. He was the first 

 champion mile winner, and secured both the Diamond 

 Sculls at Henley and the Wingfield Sculls on the Thames. 

 He was born in 1843, and now, in his fifty-sixth year, has 

 actually broken the records in cycle racing, for both the 

 flying quarter of a mile and the flying mile. The 

 " laudatores temporis acti " have indeed something this time 

 to boast of, in Mr. Lawes' marvellous achievement. 



Mr. F. G. Hobson was at " Joynes's," and became one 

 of the band of first-rate gentlemen-riders who have hailed 

 from Eton, and set the seal on his fame by winning the 

 Liverpool Steeplechase on "Austerlitz." His example was 

 subsequently followed by poor " Eoddy " Owen, whose 

 death, from cholera in the Soudan, brought such genuine 



