Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 1, Hunting

Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes

by Charles Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Digby Collins (Contributor), Mowbray Morris (Editor)

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426 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1884

About the author

Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort KG, PC, DL (1 February 1824 – 30 April 1899), styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1835 and Marquess of Worcester from 1835 to 1853, was a British peer, soldier, and Conservative Party politician.

Throughout his life he was known as 'Charles Beaufort' to distinguish him from his father. He was married to Georgiana Charlotte (née Curzon), Duchess of Beaufort (1825-1906)

Beaufort conceived and planned the Badminton Library series of sporting books, the publication of which began in 1885 with a volume on Hunting, and acted as its overseeing editor.

The name 'Badminton Library' was derived from that of Duke of Beaufort's principal country house, Badminton in Gloucestershire. There is no volume in the series on the sport of Badminton, named after the same house.