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 celebration of the Savage Club Empire Night dinner, June 20th, 1908. It depicts the Chairman, Mr J. Henniker Heaton, M.P., as he then was, clad in flowing toga and tooling a team of wild horses from a Chariot that had left the earth for the Clouds. The Steeds' collars bespoke them 'United States,' 'Canada,' 'Australia,' and 'Africa,' while the Chariot bore the Legend 'One penny all the way!' A happy recognition of the Chairman's life work for the penny postage.

"It was on 29th June, 1912, that Sir John was specially invited to be the guest of the Club at a house dinner presided over by Mr Yeend King, V.P.R.I., when he was cordially congratulated in Savage style on the Baronetcy which the King had just conferred upon him.

"When the end came, in September, 1914, a wreath, 'In Memoriam from his brother Savages,' was laid upon the grave in Geneva by his old friend and fellow Club man, Dr Turtle Pigott, while a deputation from the Committee attended the Memorial Service at St Margaret's in London."

Apart from his political life, H. H. chiefly enjoyed what may be called his excursions into literary society. The many Sunday afternoons spent by him, and his wife, with Wilfrid and Alice Meynell were among their dearest and happiest recollections. At Palace Court House was gathered all that was choicest in artistic and literary London. It is impossible to describe the effect Mrs Meynell has upon her surroundings—there is only a feeling that the chasm between the material world and the spiritual world has been suddenly bridged.

In reply to my request for a few memories of H. H. Mr Wilfrid Meynell writes: