We much regret to record the death of Lord Chaplin,
at the age of 82, which occurred on Tuesday. Both in thought and presence he was a real " link with the past," and we shall not see his like again. He might have stood for the figure of an English squire as a squire is supposed typically to be. He had a genuine knowledge and love of agriculture and of all country sports. Few men under- stood foxhounds better than he did. He was the hero of a sensational Derby when his horse, Hermit, won against tremendous odds. He was the type of large land- owner in this respect also, that he considered it an obvious duty to take his part in public life. He was. President of the Board of Agriculture under the late Lord Salisbury and held other Cabinet offices. His one solution of agricultural distress was, to our regret, to do away with Free Trade. Up to the last he kept his interests not only alive but vigorous, and many of the young generation, to whom he was uniformly genial and kind, will rival the sense of personal loss that is being felt by older people. *
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