SOME OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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We can remember a menagerie in the grounds of Wentworth, 
which no longer exists, but, in the late Earl's life, it afforded him 
much interest ; and amongst the specimens was said to have been a 
chimpanzee, one of the finest specimens that had been brought to 
England. The animal became ill and died, but not before it had 
received the best medical attention of the neighbourhood. 
This noble family may justly be proud of their connection with 
the name and property of the ill-used minister of Charles 1. ; and 
so, in 1807, William, the fourth Earl Fitzwilliam, preferred the name 
of Wentworth to that of his own family, and it has ever since been 
borne by all his descendants. When the present Earl's elder brother 
was living, he was called Mr. Wentworth," as Viscount Milton's 
eldest son. Hence, it was a subject of considerable annoyance, when 
in 1847 Sir John Byng, who had been created Baron Strafford in 
1835, was elevated to the title of Earl of Strafford. The late Earl 
Fitzwilliam naturally felt that this trenched on a grand name 
inseparably connected with his Wentworth estate, and he remonstrated 
with the Prime Minister, and even addressed the Throne, but the 
patent had been already gTanted, and Lord John Russell reminded 
the Earl that he had the substance and the other the shadow 
(iwmims umbra). This incident was the cause of his lordship 
restoring the old name of " Wentworth Woodliouse " to the mansion ; 
but several milestones in the neighbourhood still record on the road- 
side the distance from ''Wentworth House." Being a judicious 
patron of art the Earl made valuable additions to both the pictures 
and sculptures at Wentworth, and he paved the grand saloon with 
marble, in completion of the architect Flitcroft's design, after 
removing a fine oak floor. 
As Lord Fitzwilliam was an accomplished horseman, he rode 
great distances ; for instance, from Wentworth to Milton in one day, 
which covers a distance of not less than eighty miles ; and he would 
ride from London to Eton and back on a visit to his three sons when 
at school. And it is remarkable that a feat of horsemanship was 
immediately connected with his decease ; for, notwithstanding the 
affliction during several years of a very painful disease, which 
required severe surgical treatment, and that he had attained the 
