1820] LORD MIDDLETONS FALL. 61 



On the last day of the season 1820-1821 the meet was 

 at Admington. As Lord Middleton was galloping round 

 the field his horse fell and threw him, and rolled over him, 

 injuring his thigh and shoulder. He was taken to Mr. 

 Corbet's house at Admington, and, although not seriously 

 injured, he was seldom seen to ride anything but a pony in 

 the field afterwards, and he resigned the hounds. In the 

 second season after he had become master forty-nine and a 

 half brace of foxes were killed, and no greater number were 

 ever killed in any subsequent season during his manage- 

 ment. His stud of hunters were sold at Leicester in 

 November, 1823, and fetched large .prices. 



The Earl of Warwick, when Lord Brooke, was often seen 

 at the covert side at this time. His lordship's stud was 

 selected with, great care and judgment, and his hunters in 

 general cost high prices. He was a capital rider to hounds. 

 After his lordship met with a severe accident when hunting,^ 

 he was not often seen in the field. He had a famous grey 

 horse, a great favourite, and upon him he has frequently 

 held as prominent a place in the field as any in many a long 

 and hard day. This fine animal met with an untimely 

 end. 



Will Barrow, Mr. Corbet's huntsman, hunted the 

 hounds onb for a short time after they were taken by Lord 

 Middleton, and Will Don and Tom Steej)les each hunted 

 them for one season afterwards. The latter was succeeded 

 by Harry Jackson, who continued to hunt them until 

 1818, when he was disabled by a bad fall, and received an 

 annuity from Lord Middleton. He had previously been 

 huntsman to Lord Yernon, and especially distinguished 

 himself in the kennel, although he was not very quick in 

 the field. Zac Goddard, Tom Smith, and Jack Stevens 

 were his lordship's whips, and Tom Smith hunted the 

 hounds for the last two seasons of his mastership. 



them. On this occasion tliey found at Pillerton Gorse, and ran to ground at Brailes 

 Hill, On the way to draw again at Compton Wyniates, Vanguard tried to leave the 

 pack to get back to the earth, but was prevented from doing so ; he eventually, however, 

 got away unperceived, and was never seen again, and it was supposed he had entered 

 the earth too far, and oould not get back again. 



