But this he would not give me, saying he could write something much better than that, and would do so, some day.
But I had it printed for private circulation, and I gave a copy to several of the older Masters, and among others one to Mr. George Lane Fox, of Bramham Moor celebrity, who the day after Lord Henry's death sent a copy to Baily's Magazine, who published it.
And here a word about my own relations with the late Lord Henry may not be out of place.
He was the fourth son of the fourth Duke of Portland, who died in 1854, being succeeded by his second son, the Marquis of Titchfield (the eldest son having died in 1821); the third being Lord George Bentinck, who in his earlier days was the Napoleon of the Turf; and the fourth, Lord Henry, who in the hunting world was very much what his brother George had been upon the turf. And these three brothers it was, or rather the forces they were able to command, which enabled them to establish Mr. Disraeli as Leader of the Conservative Party, and finally to defeat, and oust, Sir Robert Peel from power, after their homeric conflicts in connection with the Repeal of the Corn Laws.
