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1 George Villiers ' he had built himself such 

 a name over Leicestershire and at New- 

 market, he shrank into the aged octogenarian, 

 worn down with illness and heartbroken at 

 the death of his most cherished daughter, 

 whose proud beauty had made her season 

 after season the reigning toast of the West 

 End. Sporting has also lost Mr. Tattersall, 

 that quaint ' Bluff Hal ' who always advised 

 young men never to bet and never to join his 

 own rooms, and told a Peer who did not care 

 to go straight his opinion of him as openly as 

 he would have spoken to the humblest stable 

 helper. Hunting, too, mourns its greatest 

 official in Will Goodall ; a man without a peer 

 in his profession, and as gentle in speech as 

 he was gallant in action. No ribald songs 

 will ever elevate him to the pedestal of a 

 ' Tom Moody ; ' but his memory will rest in 

 the hearts of sportsmen who recall his prowess 

 over ' Belvoir's sweet vale ' with a far more 

 enduring significance. Save and except one 

 very old Bishop, the Mitre has fallen in 1859 

 from no episcopal head. Bishop Maltby, the 

 pupil of Samuel Parr, to whom the sight of 

 anyone eating fish or poking the fire, was 



