Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . same motives in a more or lesspronounced form, have characterised one duke afteranother. Even in their physical features may be traceda continuous resemblance, and it is hardly too much tosuppose that the Somersets of the nineteenth centurygive us a very fair idea of the Plantagenets of thefourteenth. Charles Henry Fitzroy Somerset, the eighth andpresent duke, is even more versatile than his
Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . same motives in a more or lesspronounced form, have characterised one duke afteranother. Even in their physical features may be traceda continuous resemblance, and it is hardly too much tosuppose that the Somersets of the nineteenth centurygive us a very fair idea of the Plantagenets of thefourteenth. Charles Henry Fitzroy Somerset, the eighth andpresent duke, is even more versatile than his experiences have been varied indeed. A dashingcavalry officer, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellingtonand Viscount Harding, Member of Parliament for EastGloucestershire, High Steward of Bristol, Master of theHorse, Privy Councillor, Master of the Badminton Hounds,Memberof the Jockey Club, PresidentoftheFour-in-Handand Coaching Clubs, a generous patron of the Drama, aman about town of the first water—there is no fashion-able circle of political, aristocratic, sporting or Bohemiansociety in which the present Duke of Beaufort has notbeen a conspicuous and popular figure. But it is as the.
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