Mr. Duncan says that the Light Horse rose phenix-like from the Mounted Rangers in the early eighties and he was one of the first to join it. Capt. C. O. Liddell, though not the first O. C., as some here now seem to think, took a very active part in the revival.
The moving spirit, Mr. Duncan says, was a young College man, Charles Danvers. Whitty, who was a chum of his at Clifton College in its very early days. When Mr. Duncan left Home for China in 1876, Whitty was studying for the Church, but evidently did not fancy it, for one day, when talking with Mr. E. H. Gore-Booth (Young Gory), Mr. Duncan happened to mention his old chum and was surprised to hear he was in Shanghai. It was then found that he gave up the idea of entering the Church and enlisted in his uncle's Lancer regiment. His uncle let him have a run in the new life and then bought him out. Whitty then came to Shanghai under the wing of Mr. Stripling, an old Australian friend of his father, at that time in charge of the Hongkew police, and secured
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