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Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke ofj, 



Beaufort, died April 30th, 1899, aged 75, at Stoke House, Stoke 

 Gifford, Bristol. Buried at Badminton. Born Feb. 1st, 1824. Educated ! 

 at Eton. He served in the 1st Life Guards, and afterwards in the 7th y § 

 Hussars, retiring in 1861 with the rank of Lt.-Col. Aide-de-Camp to . 

 the Duke of Wellington, 1842 — 1852, and to Viscount Hardinge afterwards. ' 

 On leaving the army he became Commandant of the Gloucestershire 

 Yeomanry. M.P. for East Gloucestershire 1846 — 1853 ; and twice Master 

 of the Horse. Married, 1845, Lady Georgiana Curzon, d. of the 1st Earl !, 

 Howe, who with four sons, survives him. He was a strong Conservative ; | 

 but it was as a sportsman that he was so widely known. The Devizes \ 

 Gazette, May 4th, 1899, in a long and very full obituary notice, says : — " 

 "It is not too much to say that with the Duke of Beaufort the greatest 

 living authority upon the Chase, the Turf, and the Boad, disappears from ' 

 the "West End. Of the ' Badminton Library ' he was not only the editor, 

 but, with the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, the life and soul. He was j 

 himself the author of the volume on ' Driving,' part author of that on | 

 'Hunting,' and a contributor to 'Biding,' . . . He was justly • 

 described as one of the best whips that ever drove a team of four horses." ! 

 For forty years he hunted the Badminton country until the pack was f 

 made over, with Badminton itself, to the Marquis of Worcester, in 1895. j 

 Generous and kind-hearted, *he was amazingly popular, both in \\\ 

 Gloucestershire and in North Wilts — where for more than a generation > | 

 " The Duke " was looked on as the personification of fox-hunting. J 

 An article on him as huntsman appeared in the Bristol Times and Mirror, f 



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Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Bart., died June llth, 1899, aged 90. I 

 Buried at Breamore, Hants, Born April 2nd, 1809 (son of Sir Charles N 

 and Maria, d. of John Buller, of Morval, Co. Cornwall). Educated at 

 Eton and Christ Church, Oxon. Succeeded to title and married, 1854, ,| 

 Kafcherine Jane, d. of Henry Parr Hamilton, D.D., Dean of Salisbury. j J 

 B.A., Oxon, 1829 ; M.A., 1835. Fellow of All Souls. J.P. and D.L. ' 

 for Wilts and Hants. High Sheriff of Hants, 1868. Lt.-Col. of South 

 Hants Militia, 1867—1870. Elective Verderer of New Forest from 1877. 

 He leaves three sons — Edward Henry, M.P. for Salisbury, 1886 — 1897, 

 who succeeds to the title ; Major Charles Westrow ; Hamilton ; and , ■ 

 two daughters — Mrs. Crighton and the Hon. Mrs. D. Pleydell-Bouverie. 

 A notable yachtsman in early life. His interests lay principally in 

 agriculture and Church and charity. A strong Conservative himself he • 

 took but little part in politics — but in everything which had to do with \, 

 agriculture, in every movement connected with Church work or 



