The Earl of Eglinton and Winton A Good Sportsman

Details

Sir Leslie Matthew Ward 'Spy' (1851-1922)
The Earl of Eglinton and Winton
A Good Sportsman
signed 'Spy' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
13 x 7¾ in. (33 x 19.8 cm.)

Provenance

Thomas Gibson Bowles.
Original Drawings for the Cartoons in Vanity Fair; Sotheby's, London, 28 - 29 October 1912, lot 140 (15s. to Harker).
Stanley Jackson.

Exhibited

Hendon, Church Farm House Museum, Vanity Fair 1869-1914, 10 September - 18 December, 1983.

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Lot Essay

George Arnulph Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglington and 3rd Earl of Winton (1848-1919), was the son of Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton and Theresa Newcomen. From the age of nine, he hunted with the Ward Union Staghounds. He was educated at Eton, where he became Captain of the Lower School football team, before leaving at the age of thirteen to join the Grenadier Guards. He was an outstanding sportsman and known particularly as a horseman and huntsman. He married Janet Lucretia in 1873 and succeeded his brother as Earl of Eglington in 1892. He was Sheriff of Renfrew and Deputy-Lieutenant for Ayrshire.

He is one of the best hunting men in the kingdom. He won the Garrison Hundred Yards Race in Dublin; rode much, chiefly in steeplechases; and did it so well that he once beat H. Grimshaw in a six-furlong welter at Liverpool - by a short head.

Vanity Fair, 'Statesmen', No. 663, 1896.

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