The English public in fact have always recognised in him a manifestation of an ideal they have been seeking, a fine symbol of their own race, a sportsman and a “Sahib,” and a political leader among the governing classes who owned the land... He was one of the last, almost the last, of the fox-hunting country gentlemen who also wielded political influence... o one was half such a country gentleman as Henry Chaplin looked... He possessed a strongly marked individuality, easily recognisable, familiar to the public. Every one knew him by sight.