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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.