Sir Xiyel King scot e. 
have been added to the flock from time to time, purchased 
at Goodwood, Buckland, Crichel, and Cirencester. Sir Nigel 
was extremely fond of his flock of Southdowns, and liked to 
see them uniform in type and colour. He introduced fresh 
blood each season by the purchase of sires from well-known 
flocks, Goodwood and Babraham being frequently drawn upon 
for this purpose. He very seldom purchased ewes, as he 
thought lie could more easily keep an uniform type by 
breeding from ewes bred at home. 
It is some years since pure bred Berkshire pigs were kept 
at Kingscote. Sir Nigel was very much grieved when, some 
fifteen years ago, swine-fever cleared out his old herd, which 
was full of Kingscote blood. He started another herd, which 
again was cleared out in the same manner. The origin of the 
disease was never traced in either case. After the second 
visitation only cross-bred pigs were kept. Even in the poultry 
yard Sir Nigel liked to see pure stock, and he used to breed 
the black-breasted Old English Red Game, of which some 
years ago he had a number of very good specimens. 
In personal appearance, Sir Nigel was tall, slim, and upright, 
with a striking aristocratic face, and the aquiline nose of the 
Somersets which he inherited from his mother. His courteous 
and distinguished bearing, and his kindly and tactful manners 
of the old school, made him a great favourite in social circles, 
and he was wonderfully popular wherever he went. He was 
a familiar figure at Brooks’ Club, and was equally well 
known at the interesting but now practically defunct 
Cosmopolitan Club, which from about 1858 to the end of 1902 
had its meetings twice a week at 30 Charles Street, Berkeley 
Square. Sir Algernon West, than whom no better arbiter of 
a man’s social qualities exists, and who has the tenderest 
memories of Sir Nigel, wrote an entertaining account of the 
Cosmopolitan Club in the Cornhill Magazine for August, 1903. 
He tells me that when a vacancy occurred in the office of 
Secretary, the thoughts of every member turned with one 
accord to Sir Nigel, and that he “brought to bear in the 
performance of his duties a charm of manner, a personal 
popularity, and a perennial youth which reflected themselves 
upon every member of the club.” Lord Welby, another 
staunch “ Cosmopolitan,” echoes these sentiments, and is an 
equally ardent admirer of Sir Nigel, with whom he was also 
brought into close association at the periodical gatherings of 
the Society of Dilettanti (established in 1734), to which they 
both belonged. If it were necessary, which it is not, the 
