atmosphere and bright, vivid outlines. See an excellent sketch by Edmund Gosse in his Critical Kit-Kats (1896). An extract of what Gosse wrote: 'His character was like an opal, where all the colours lie purdue, drowned in a milky mystery, and so arranged that to a couple of observers, simultaneously bending over it, the prevalent hue shall in one case seem a pale green, in the other a fiery crimson'. A poem A Pastoral Venetian School Arcadian spaces of great grass arise; Crisp lambs are merry : hoary vales are laid, Studded with roe-deer and wild strawberries; In one a shepherd tabours near a maid; Who teases at the button of his cloak, Where rarely underneath them grows the herb; A squirrel eyes ther lovers from an oak, And speckled horses pasture without curb. In a fair meadow set with tulip-heads. A water-mill rolls little crested falls Of olive torrent, broken in grey threads. A grave-yard crowds black crosses in square walls. And up behind in a still orchard close The apples ripen, crushing down the trees, In millions, russet-green and amber-rose, Fit for the gardens of the Hesperides. Such colour as the morning brings the skies, Such mirage as our dreams in childhood gave, Infinite cadence of ethereal dyes, The radiance of a rainbow-burnished wave. Quaint pastoral Arcadia, where are set Thy rainy lands and reddish underwoods? Earth has not held thy fabled sunsets yet, Though lovers build their palace on thy roods. Sisters Catherine (1838–1881). Buried Harlington, Middlesex. Meriel (1839–72), married (1862), Allen, 6th Earl Bathurst (1832–1892), of Cirencester. (He succeeded in 1878, after her death). Eleanor (1841-14 August 1914), married (1864), Sir Baldwyn Leighton, MP, 8th Baronet (1836-2 January 1897), of Loton, Salop. She was (eventual) heir to her brother in 1895, and in 1900 took the name Leighton-Warren. Margaret (1847–1921), married (1875), Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 2nd Bt, (aka Emile Algernon Arthur Keppel Cowell-Stepney) (1834–1909), of Llanelli. Their daughter Catherine Muriel [sic] Cowell Stepney (Miss Alcyone Stepney) (1876-1952), was painted by Sir John Everett Millais, Royal Academy, 1880, no. 239. Of Cilymaenllwyd, Llanelli, she married Sir Stafford Howard, KCB, DL, JP, MP in 1911. and two other children, who both died in infancy. Two of de Tabley's sisters, a niece and an uncle References Country Life, "Tabley Hall, The seat of Mr. C. Leicester Warren", by Christopher Hussey, 21 July 1923, (vol. 54, page 84). Further reading