"The Queen's Hounds And Stag-Hunting Recollections" 1897 Lord Ribblesdale
$475
Lord Ribblesdale
Signed by Lord Ribblesdale w/ his bookplate affixed
[315] pp.
Longmans, Green, And Co.
1897
9 1/4" x 6 1/2"
*front hinge starting*
Thomas Lister was born on 29 October 1854 in Fontainebleau, France, the eldest son of Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale (1828–1876), and his wife Emma (née Mure) (1833–1911), daughter of William Mure. He succeeded his father in the barony in 1876.
Lord Ribblesdale sat on the Liberal benches in the House of Lords and served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) under William Ewart Gladstone from 1880 to 1885 and in 1886 and as Master of the Buckhounds under Gladstone and later Lord Rosebery from 1892 to 1895. Apart from his political career he was also a Captain in the Rifle Brigade and a Trustee of the National Gallery from 1909 to 1925.
His portrait was painted by John Singer Sargent and is said to epitomise the British aristocrat.