SOME OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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The festivities that took place in the Park, as well remembered by 
our venerable witness, must be regarded as arranged by the servants, 
who were not restricted in the hospitalities they offered to all comers, 
without respect for social distinction. Oxen were roasted whole on 
spits, formed of young fir trees ; and the best ales from the extensive 
cellars under the great house flowed in dangerous plenty for the 
crowds, who came to the general festival. There may have been 
cases of excess ; but this outdoor hospitality fully expressed that 
spirit of generosity which has ever characterized this noble family, 
without regard to class or station. 
When Earl Fitzwilliam entered into possession of his estates in 
1833, he was a widower, with a numerous family of children. His 
eldest son, Lord Milton, had married, in this same 5'ear, Lady Selina 
Jenkinson, second daughter of Charles, third Earl of Liverpool ; and, 
to the great grief of his family, he died on 8th November, 1835, of 
typhus fever ; a posthumous daughter ultimately married the son 
and heir of Lord Portman ; and his widow married secondly, in 1845, 
George Savile Foljambe, Esq., of Osberton, Notts. The present peer, 
who became Lord Milton, married in 1838 Lady Francis Douglas, 
eldest daughter of the Earl of Morton ; and there were two other 
sons, the Honourable George, and the Honourable Charles William, 
as well as six daughters. The eldest of these, Lady Cliarlotte, will 
be recalled by all who knew her with the highest respect and 
admiration. No lady could have filled a mother's vacant place with 
more graceful fitness ; and her father must have felt the great comfort 
and support of her rule over his stately home. 
Lord Fitzwilliam thoroughly maintained all the traditions of the 
noble ancestry whom lie succeeded. A good horse, and he was a 
great rider, pleased him, as it did the Earl of Strafford beforetime ; 
who, when Lord Deputy in Ireland, had sixty valuable horses in his 
stable ; and yet the subject of this notice had the appearance and 
manner of a thorough statesman, and man of science, rather than a 
representative of sport. It may be said, that when his lordship 
became possessed of his Yorkshire property, the coal and iron trades 
were in their comparative infancy. The wealthy capitalist and the 
limited company had not arisen, and the mining engineer did not 
