The 6th Lord Walsingham Go out with a bang

Sportsman, politician, amateur entomologist and naturalist, and first-class gentleman cricketer, the 6th Lord Walsingham was designated the joint-second top Shot in Great Britain by Baily’s Magazine in 1903; his counterpart was Reginald Rimington-Wilson. He was also considered by many to be the best all-round game Shot in the country during the Edwardian era.

Trustee of the British Museum for 43 years, a trustee of the Hunterian Museum and of the Royal College of Surgeons, high steward of Cambridge University and high steward of King’s Lynn and a magistrate for Norfolk, he published a scientific paper on the distribution of deer and other ruminants in California and and in the Badminton Library series.