CAPTAIN CHARLES MUIR (NOW COLONEL), A.D.C. TO VICEROY AND COMMANDING HIS EXCELLENCY’S BODY GUARD 80 LORD WILLIAM AND PONTO 80 LORD LYTTON, FAMILY, AND STAFF, 1877 104 LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD’S HORSE DEMOCRAT 132 LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD LEADING KATE COVENTRY, RIDDEN BY DEWING. CALCUTTA, 1881 132 GROUP AT BARRACKPORE ON THE LAWN 154 STAFF AND GUESTS AT VICEREGAL LODGE, SIMLA 156 SOME NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE CALCUTTA TENT CLUB 160 LORD RIPON, LADY RIPON, AND STAFF 166 THE LATE MARQUESS OF RIPON, VICEROY OF INDIA 172 LORD DUFFERIN, FAMILY, AND STAFF 182 LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD IN 1886 218 THE VICEROY’S STAFF IN LIGHTER MOMENTS 232 THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE 234 BEAUTIFUL BLITZ 242 PILOTEER WINNING A TROTTING PRIZE 242 H.H. THE MAHARAJAH OF PATIALA 252 NEW PAVILION AT ANNANDALE 256 MYALL KING’S GRAVE 262 REPRODUCTION OF SIGNATURES OF THOSE PRESENT AT THE CALCUTTA BANQUET, DECEMBER 30, 1893 272 LILY, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH 284 THE DEEPDENE, DORKING 286 FRONT HALL AT THE DEEPDENE 286 LORD WILLIAM, IN OFFICIAL CAPACITY 298 LORD WILLIAM AND HIS SON BILLY 298 TOD SLOAN IN LORD WILLIAM’S COLOURS 304 CAIMAN AT THE POST FOR THE MIDDLE PARK PLATE THE DAY HE BEAT FLYING FOX. TOD SLOAN IN LORD WILLIAM’S COLOURS 304 LORD WILLIAM AND LORD MARCUS BERESFORD 314 COLONEL LORD WILLIAM LESLIE DE LA POER BERESFORD, V.C., K.C.I.E. 1846-1900 LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD, V.C. CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS Early Childhood--Eton Days--Mischief and Whackings--Companions at Work and Play--Sporting Contemporaries of Note--The So-styled “Mad Marquis”--His Bride--Carriage Accident--Ride in Grand National--House of Commons Acknowledgment of Lady Waterford’s Goodness to the Irish during the Famine--Joins the 9th Lancers in Dublin--A Few Sporting Mishaps--Why he Spent his Life in India