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On this day 1897 (4 January) Sir Henry Halford died at Wistow Hall, Leicester.
The following has been collated from various sources on my Research Vault web site.
He was born on 9 August 1828, and was educated at Eton and at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1849. He took a keen interest in the Volunteer movement, was well known for his delight in rifle-shooting and for scientific and practical knowledge of the weapon which he loved so well.
The 1865 Cambridge Cup match in Great Britain, which comprised two days shooting at 1,000 and 1,100 yards, fifteen shots at each range each day, was won by Sir Henry Halford using the then new Gibbs-Metford muzzle-loading match rifle. In the first rifle match between England and Scotland for the Elcho shield in 1862, Sir Henry shot for England, and made the highest score. He subsequently shot in 1863, 1865, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1877–84, 1886–1890, and 1893. In 1872, when England won, he again made the highest score. His principal individual successes at the National Rifle Association meetings at Wimbledon and Bisley were the Albert prize in 1862 and 1893, the Duke of Cambridge prize and the Association cup in 1871, and the Dudley in 1893, besides a vast number of less important prizes. He Captained Great Britain teams to America in 1877 and 1882 to shoot at Creedmoor.
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