Related article: Sporting Intelligence, Sept. — October 381 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 VOL. LXXIV. — NO. 489. 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 23 . 3IO BAILY S MAGAZINE. [November 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 I900.] LORD MIDDLETON* 311 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