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Burnaby kept his hard-riding field under perfect control by means of an unrivalled combination of polished wit and sarcasm. If, for example, some of the ladies rode too close to hounds in their eagerness to keep ahead of each other, his cry of "Hold hard, all the pretty women; the others can go on" would stop them in their tracks. Or, if a thrusting young man jumped a fence where the hounds had checked to pick up the lost scent, and I was within earshot, Algy would upbraid him with some such caustic remark as, "Come back, young feller. Who the hell do you think you are, the Prince of Wales?"
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Burnaby died in December 1950, leaving a widow, Vilma Dorothea Ludourka Todenhagen, whom he had married in 1923, and a substantial fortune. Ludourka Burnaby lived until 1982. Burnaby's sister Hilda died unmarried in August 1953, aged 87. Burnaby's step-son Henry Field became a significant
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333:(Burke Publishing Company, 1921), pp. 241–242: "BURNABY OF BAGGRAVE HALL, ALGERNON EDWYN BURNABY, of Baggrave Hall, co. Leicester, J.P., Major Terr. Force Reserve, late Lieut Royal Horse Guards and Capt. Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry"
431:(Pallas Publishing Company, 1938), p. 69: "BURNABY, Mrs. Algernon (nee Minna Field), Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire. b: Paris 1882. E: Dobbs Ferry, m: Maj. Algernon Burnaby. C: Henry Field. I: Gardening and golf."
213:, with the riders dressed in night shirts and top hats and the fences lit by oil lamps. Burnaby was the triumphant winner, gaining a silver cup provided by Zborowski. The race is commemorated in sporting prints.
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532:(Vinton & Company, Limited, 1953), p. 551: "Mrs. Algernon Burnaby, whose late husband, Major Algernon Burnaby, had been Master of the Quorn from 1918-32, died at her home in Florida in May 1952."
419:(Vol. 1, 1953), p. 14: "On July 18, 1008, at York Harbor, Maine, Mother, who had divorced my father several years before, married Algy Burnaby. As the blessing was pronounced, my life changed."
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HENRY FIELD: ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE PRESIDENT (1902-1986)
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