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THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1959.

BRITAIN'S GRANDEES: A CLOSE LOOK AT THE DUKES

ASK the average man to namo a duke and he So much for would probably say "Bedford,” the power of personal publicity. But scattered around England are several other dukes whose namos rarely hit the headlines, and who sell liva in tremendous style. Today Page Four bogini a close look at the men who can claim to be the grandeos of Britain, close to the Royal Family.

SIR HENRY HUGH

First: . man

ARTHUR

FITZROY

SOMERSET, 10th Duke of Beaufort, Knight of the Garter, Marquess and Earl of Worcester and Lord of many places beside, is one of the grandees of the realm.

of But proud as he is his uncare, his titles and his acres, 1 tink he would be more proud if the judgment of his life and charpeler wap, "He preserved and improved the breed of fox- hounds in this country." Just thint.

Single-minded

Most of them have been Knights of the Garter. And quite often they are Masters of the Horse. have always lived at They Badminton in the midst of their there used to broad acres ... be nearly 60,000 of them. and been good landlordk.

And that is about all The present Duke, tall, gaunt with a long face, has fulfilled all the traditions of his family. We should probably have seen 1tle of him in London.

The greatest

of the

foxhunting

Beauforts

by

DONALD EDGAR

BOAC

SOUTH AMERICA

PORTO ALEGS DJUNTEST AURUS TIEPHA DIL JUEGO

THE GETAWAY –BY JAK.

'And who do we have 'ere-master brain Fingers Maloney off to do All Baba in South Africa?"

any

He won Infuriated when a No one who had But he former official of the RSPCA

with him acquaintance him suggesting that became Master of the Horse to wrote to

For he has devoted years. money.

energy. brains to that one end with a single-minded. ness, with a passion, with ruthlessons that is formidable.

The It runs in the family. Beaufort are the archetypes of that strange bred that as for centuries mystified the world... the English "milor" who spentis

la life hunting the fox.

No! fur the Benuforts the social pleasures of the hunt, or way,

Now, although to the Duke the horse is primarily an animal 10 follow which cables you bounds, he is very knowledge able about horses and happens to be a very fine horsemTKIN,

In somo strange instinetivo since the war the horse

A

a Queen who is devoted passion- special attention should be pail would dream of addressing: ately to the horse.

to the Forses pulling the him in any other way. Coronation couch.

The Duke of Deaufort's" is He was also surred to write dow the finest pack In the couti- report ry. It has outrun in fame and prestige all the Leicestershire to the papers when

hunts which used to have fire appeared then young ewes were being killed by foxes. For it is

eedence. not much use braving foxhounds it you have no foxes. So the their pre- Duke watches over servation ing field

the thrill of the ride and the has become more than a noble Jump. They

their hounds

of Beaufort's"

hunt and kill a fox.

It

outside the hun

nearly a closely

as over his hounds,

behind animal to the aristocracy. "the Duke has become almost a symbol of to see them loyalty to the Throne, to ancient

traditions.

The last duke was not even a Bu he was good horseman. magnificent with bounds.

The list of foxhunting Benar- forts Miretches back into English history. There was the heir to the dukedom who was ADC to the Duke of Wellington at the the time he was trying to bea! French in Portugal and Spain.

Tall, gaunt

But the ADC pined and grew bored just fighting the French. A pack of hounds was sent out from England end some good sport was had around Lisbon. They say the news tirove more than one of Napoleon's maushals into a decline.

foxhunting, the Apart from Beauforts have made relatively little mark on the country.

They have always had certain things in cummon ... they have always been Tories Civil War. Deen

-(London Express Strólce).

What odds against the

As

S an exciting and rewarding career, that of the It is magnificent country over

There is safe-breaker used to strike me as being only he hunts. which scarcely any wire, for his tenant second and third to that of the test pilot and white for the season. farmers Judiciously

hunter. It was highly immoral, of course, but so was Robin Hood, and the finest safe-breakers hurt

remove it

"Duke's

There is no doubt it is one of That is why he is strongly the grent sights of England to-

"The against any interference with day to

the thin edge of "After stag-hunting, ing."

sung-hunting. He thinks it is hunting. Impeccable

the

.

cracksman?

nobody but the insurance companies or them-sen and gellgalte packed into biggest selves.

By Tom Pocock

wedge. You may get as many as 150 foxhunt- in the field. All splendidly There were the gentlemen mounted. Many wearing theerneksmen, carefully folding cloak before the envied very of blue coat with opera-bats and

buff facinjen,

taking stuff-cigar smoke would And there will be the pack be too dangerous and pressing as well-drilled at the Guards. the stethoscope gently against

with They move into position the precision of a Trooping the Colour parade.

So the Duke has taken time

The Duke,

like all eft from his hounds to organise such events as the Badminton

when grundees, has felt the pinch Three Day Horse Trinis practically the whole Royal little in his generation. Family re sheltered under his lives in style, but no great style. Into the All the money goes 700f.

kennels and the stables.

Never are there a happler pair than when the Duke goes homes with round discussing the Queen.

The Duke is president of nearly every horse society in the country.

Great sight

11

He

London. The Queen has given

There is the Duke watching every one of them, noting faults, noting qualities.

the lock.

PREJUDICE

AL

door over made f keyhole.

Europe. I weighed 30 tons and was 42 inches thick. In this About 10 years ago an emET=

slab of gency re-locking device was in- door was embedded a troduced. If a key lock wae cracksman-proof alloy 24 inches blown, the device lockeri the thick. door so firmly that the cracks- man would be worse of than

ever.

a

G

A WEEK

under

Bul however skilled and subtle the locksmith there was

threat

It is reckoned that a skilled of direct always tho effective and consistent enamles assault by oxy-acetylene burner, oxy-acetylene operator, working are the locksmiths and the sale- A test was held in London the with the best equipment avail- makers.

other day and a skilled cutter able

Ideal conditions, Coming down to reality, the

Chubb's, the largest and sliced open a sheet, of steel plate would need a couple of skja lo 25in thick in four minutes. cut through it--and that is only "The horse." tre has said, is jelly-bas" planning their ralit among the oldest locksmiths

one of the obstacles. He keeps no establishment in responsible for Tuch

He was then presented with our like a war operation, and stuff Europe, I asked an expert for of

ing only enough geligalte into the latest report on the war similar sinb of special

No safe or strong-room is in- sound like between cracksmen and lock- crackman-proot alloy and after vulnerable, but it does at last him a small apartment in Kes national character."

Colonel Llewellyn,' the horse-the keyhole to

the most smiths.

two hours burning he was only seam that a modern safe is not back-ington Palace and when be man, said of him, "He is the pistol shot, do seem.

daring and least, unpleasant "of "Since 1818 we have been try- half-way through

a thing that greatest foxhunter of our time.

can be quietly entertains it is very simple.

Now, it is this delaying action cracked by a ing to be une jump ahead of the

Raffies between He now shares the mastership One day they will call tum the the current criminal crop. Queen

Just lately they have reaped burglar," I was told "Most of in the making of the safe or dances on the terrace or even Mary. And interests of courtier with Major Gerald Gundry, who greatest foxhunter of all."

not the blown by the "Jelly boys" over When the

rich harvest. It has seemed the successful raids on safes and the strong-room, shades of pastļa and monarch, though

have succeeded skill of the locksmith. that Is a long weekend. inciding. are complementary.

Beauforts heard that they must so easy that the strength of the strong-rooms

The ir question. What because the locks were out of the final defence against the

new cracksman muist have felt the present head of opposition

dale."

expert crackoman,

allow himself a work-and no the family had been faithful to is the opposition?

Chubb's had just completed a interference. In fact, the trade the the family motto

They are

successes And most of these pursued by "I despise

locks, strong-room door for a Montreal is not what it was, qurels have been against key police and plek their

WDS But their most vulnerable because keys can be bank that

probably the

-(London Express Services, with the rich.

He is one of the closest of the Queen's courtiers. His ground is impeccable. His wife is a niece of the late

not co- is

The Duke is not easily stirred to onger, Of course, if you get his hounds, he will the too near since

with stream They have always whip you pillars of the throne. language quite Anglo-saxon.

able to afford some of the expense.

But he feels at G that he has completed his task in life.

of

He is "Master" not only the field, but in Lontion anywhere else.

in

and

to change or fear"

-(London Express Servled).

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