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WITH
Steel engraved portrait of Lord Middlkton.
Engravings of W. H. P. Jenkins ; John Hampson Jones and Dairymaid ; Whips ;
WlLLINGATB SPAIN AND WiLLINGATB DOB and GEORGE HaRT ON THB KnIGHT.
Lord Middleton.
It is no form of words to say that
Lord Middleton is quite the ideal
of what a sportsman, a landlord,
and a stock-breeder should be,
and most readers of Baily must
be familiar with him in these
several capacities. The annals of
** the chase," to use a phrase
which was more current in our
forefathers' time than Buy Phenytoin Online it is now,
have of recent years been en-
riched by many a great run over
the Yorkshire wolds, while there
is scarcely a show held anywhere
north of the Trent, to say nothing
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of the spring shows in the metro-
polis, at which Lord Middleton's
Shires, his Hunters, his Hack-
neys, or his Shorthorns, Buy Cheap Phenytoin do not
distinguish themselves.
A visit to Birdsall is, therefore,
of deep interest for all who can
appreciate good animals, and the
pleasure of it is enhanced if you
can find time to break the jour-
ney from York, and spend an hour
or two at Malton, around which
so many racing memories still
cling. Birdsall has been the
property of the WiUoughbys — a
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family to which Lord Ancaster
and Lord Willoughby de Broke
both belong — for two or three
centuries, and the house is situ-
ated at one end of the estate,
which extends over Buy Phenytoin 14,000 acres,
three thousand or more being
at present in his own hands.
There are Order Phenytoin Online two or three farms of a
thousand acres, and the wolds,
which extend away eastwards,
are noted as being very good for
turnips, and, with the chalk soil,
are wonderfully well adapted for
horses. From the front entrance
of the house, which, though .
roomy and comfortable within,
has no claim to architectural
splendour, there is a fine view of
the Birdsall beeches on the high
wold, which are a landmark for
miles around. It is not neces-
sary to go further than the hall to
be sure that you are in the house
of a sportsman, as the first objects
to catch the eye are a number of
heads of stags shot in Skye and
Applecross, this latter being the
fine sporting estate in the far
North of Scotland which Lord
Middleton*s father purchased from
the Duke of Leeds, and where he
himself always spends the months
of August, September and Oc-
tober, only returning to Birdsall
in time to begin the hunting
season.
Many other sporting trophies
are to be seen in various parts of
the house, notably in Lord Middle-
ton's own room, including six
more "heads" from Applecross,
four of the stags having been killed
by himself. Interesting, too, is it
to be shown the Purchase Phenytoin mask of the last
fox which Nimrod Long killed in
April, 1877. Four pictures Order Phenytoin by
Aiken of hunting scenes in Lei-
cestershire, good portraits of the
Pytchley Paradox and of Piper,
a son of the Grove Pirate, of the
thoroughbred sire Gordon, who
has done such good service at
Birdsall, of the famous bull.
Knight of Oxford 12th, are
among those that adorn the
walls. Another curiosity in this
room is one of the wooden horns
used before metal ones came in.
Lord Middleton has here a
great variety of books relating to
sport and stock-breeding of all
kinds, as also to forestry and
tree-planting, in both of which he
is well versed, while a picture of
the yacht, Lady Eisa, serves- as a
reminder that he was at one time
very fond of the sea, and spent
some time cruising in the Mediter-
ranean. A straw hat gaily be-
decked, which hangs upon one of
the "heads," is a survival of his
Eton days, for it was the one he
used to wear when rowing in the
Prince of Wales ; and this leads
by a natural transition to some
talk about his early life.
Born in 1844, and the eldest of
thirteen children (ten of whom
are still alive), he was at a
private school in Hatfield before
going to Eton, where he spent
five years. Having made Purchase Phenytoin Online a tour
in the east with a tutor, he got
his commission in the Scots
Guards, and served in that dis-
tinguished corps until his mar-
riage in 1869 to the only daughter
of the late Sir Alexander Gordon
Gumming. His father being still
alive at the time of his marriage,
he and his wife lived for seven
or eight years at Settrington, a
property which was in turn pos-
sessed by Queen Elizabeth and
the Dukes of Lennox, and was
bought by the sixth Lord Middle-
ton. Here he already began to
breed stock, going in for Kerry
cattle and black Berkshires ; and
on the death of his father in 1877
he moved to Birdsall, and went
in largely for Clydesdale Short-
horns and Shires. For some time
he had the late Mr, Drew's
Clydesdale stallion Prince George
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at his stud, and the Shorthorns,
which he has now been breeding
for close upon a quarter of a cen-
tury, are nearly all of the Bates'
blood. He carried on, almost as
a matter of course, the hounds
which his Generic Phenytoin father had hunted for
so many years, a pack bought by
the late Lord Middleton from Sir
Tatton Sykes, when he took over
the country in 1853. Much of
their blood went back to hounds
given to the Sykes's by the
6th Lord Middleton — who bought
them from Mr. Corbett when suc-
ceeding him in Warwickshire.
This Lord Middleton, both in
that name and as Mr. Henry
Wil lough by, had previously been
Master of this East Riding pack,
and a letter in his hand is now
framed at Birdsall, presenting to
Sir Tatton Sykes no fewer than