Epigraph
DEDICATED
BY
KIND PERMISSION
TO
The Right Honourable Earl Spencer
K.G., P.C.
(Late First Lord of the Admiralty)
IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS HAVING GIVEN ME A NOMINATION
FOR THE NAVY, AND FOR THE GENEROUS PATRONAGE
OF HIS LORDSHIP, AND HIS LATE FATHER, TO MY
GRANDFATHER AND GREAT-GRANDFATHER, WHO
HAD THE HONOUR MEDICALLY TO ATTEND
THE HOUSEHOLD AT ALTHORP PARK,
FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.