Duke of Beaufort Country Life Magazine Portrait November 15 1930

The Duke of Beaufort, Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, November 15 1930. LXVIII No. 1765

The featured frontispiece this week is a photograph of The Duke of Beaufort, M.F.H., taken at a recent meet of the Badminton Hunt.

• Identity: Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset (1900–1984), the 10th Duke of Beaufort, widely regarded as one of the greatest fox-hunters of the twentieth century.
• Master of Foxhounds: He served as Master of the Beaufort Hunt for an extraordinary 60 years, earning the enduring nickname “Master”.
• Badminton Hunt: Based at Badminton House in Gloucestershire, this is one of the oldest and most prestigious foxhound packs in Britain.
• Family Tradition: The Beaufort family’s association with hunting spans generations:
  • 5th Duke: Established the family’s focus on fox hunting in 1762.
  • 8th Duke: Authored influential works on hunting as part of the Badminton Library series.
  • 10th Duke: Continued and expanded this legacy through his lifelong leadership of the hunt.
• Wider Legacy: Beyond hunting, he served as Master of the Horse to the Royal Household for over four decades and later founded the renowned Badminton Horse Trials in 1949.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.