92 MEMOIR OF 



coadjutor, Mr. Arthur Harris, of Hayne ; and 

 formed the nucleus of that famous pack which 

 showed such unexampled sport over the Tetcott 

 and Pencarrow countries in 1828-30 ; a wild 

 moorland district extending from Torrington to 

 Bodmin, in Cornwall, unquestionably the finest 

 hunting-ground in the West of England. 



Thirty odd years have drifted away on the 

 stream of time since the genial and big-hearted 

 George Tempter was carried to his last ances- 

 tral home at Teigngrace ; but it will interest 

 the reader to know something more of the man 

 who is acknowledged to have been Russell's 

 chief Gamaliel, and whose hunting-horn, as Mr. 

 Harris tells us, " passed so worthily to his apt 

 and favourite pupil." 



Tempter's hospitality at Stover literally knew 

 no bounds. The company, too, he selected 

 for his guests were for the most part men of 

 standing in the county — Worthies of Devon — 

 the bare fact of their being sportsmen, as 

 well as gentlemen, being the *' open sesame " 

 to Tempter's heart. 



"A Party at Stover in 1823," written in 

 elegant verse by the gifted host, includes, for 

 instance, the names of no less than four guests 

 who were subsequently Masters of Foxhounds 

 in his own or the adjoining county of Cornwall: 

 namely, those of Sir William Salusbury Tre- 

 lawny ; Mr. John King, of Fowelscombe ; Mr. 



