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MEMOIR OF 



It was but a short time after his marriage 

 with Miss Bury that Russell continued to keep 

 otter-hounds, for on removing to Iddesleigh, 

 the proceeds of wiiich living his father had 

 assigned to him, he found himself in the centre 

 of a country so gloriously wild, and so adapted 

 to fox-hunting, that he determined at once to 

 elevate his standard and follow that sport in 

 preference to the other. Accordingly, in the 

 autumn of 1826, when the woodlands were 

 changing colour and draft-hounds their kennels, 

 Russell, gathering together about ten or twelve 

 couple from various sources, but chiefly from the 

 relics of the famous Stover pack, entered on 

 his first campaign in the wilds of Hatherleigh, 

 "hunting," as he says, "anything he could find 

 around his own garden ; " for the bounds of 

 his maiden country, if such it could be called, 

 were at first woefully confined to a very limited 

 area. 



The Rev. W. H. Karslake, of Dolton, appears 

 to have been the only gentleman who, at that 

 time, kept hounds within a short distance of 

 Iddesleigh; but as they were harriers, it occurred 

 to Russell that the enjoyment of the nobler 

 sport might well be secured in so inviting a 

 field, not only without prejudice to that gentle- 

 man, but with the concurrence, and, as he hoped, 

 the goodwill of the two neighbouring Masters 

 of Foxhounds, the Hon. Newton Fellowes and 



