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he also rode some fine winning finishes on Eggsauce, 

 &c., over York and Thirsk. One of his ancestors 

 was drowned in the Nidd, and another forfeited his 

 head in the Royalist cause. He disliked politics 

 (although he did not care to be on the losing side in 

 Knaresborough) ; but during the Epsom and Ascot 

 weeks, when he had his very brief season in London, 

 the Carlton Club was his great resort. Still he did 

 not care much for London, and his great enjoyment 

 lay in natural history and general country pursuits. 



Mr. Lloyd was also as genial a man as ever lived, 

 but he had the misfortune to be deaf. This made it 

 rather difficult to talk with him, but he was full of 

 fun, and never out of humour. He was a very fine 

 rider for a heavy man, and a most enthusiastic fox- 

 hunter, never missing a day by any chance except 

 for shooting. All through his last winter, although 

 he lived four miles away, he was in York for the 

 seven o'clock train on a Thursday, when the hounds 

 (and nearly always the lady pack) met on the side of 

 the country where the accident took place. 



Mr. Robinson was quite a character. It is a big 

 word to say, but many thought him the finest rider 

 to hounds in England. The Rev. John Bower, who 

 had perhaps not a peer in his day (Earl Jersey's was 

 over) except it might be Lord Clanricarde, was the 

 man from whom, he was proud to say, he learnt all he 

 knew in the saddle, and, like that great Holderness 

 hero, on all kinds of horses. He took them as they 

 came, and he was one of the cleverest judges of them 

 in Yorkshire. He seemed to know every horse in it, 

 its powers and its failings. No one ever saw him in 

 difficulties, but always the first man in a run ; no 

 matter what cut-me-down stranger (of which the York 

 and Ainsty sees a great many during the season) 

 might arrive, they never got any change out of him. 

 Unlike most fine riders, he had not a particle of 

 jealousy, but if he thought that he knew the way 



