1842] 



EDWm STEVENS. 



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There was only one tiling- Stevens objected to, which was 

 tlnit Lord Henry did a good deal of his business with him 

 on Sunday. If anyone has earned a Sunday's rest it is a 

 huntsman t(^ a six days-a-week pack of hounds. In 1852 

 he went to London to see the Great Exhibition, and after- 

 wards spent a week at his old haunts at Kineton. On 

 liis return to Lincolnshire lie was seized with an attack 

 of English cholera, and died very shortly afterwards 

 at the age of thirty-nine. His wife was a relation of the 

 celebrated George Carter, and his grandson, the son of 

 Mrs. Middleton by her first husband, Mr. Ward, is now in 

 the merchant service. If only he was alive now, which he 

 well might be, what a lot more he might have been able to 

 tell us about the grand sport in Warwickshire during Mr. 

 Barnard's mastership, which is now lost, we fear, to our 

 readers for ever. No better or keener huntsman ever blew 

 a horn or cheered hounds on to a sinking fox. 



We append the following extract from Fore's " Guide 

 to the Hounds of England " for 1850, as it deals with the 

 period when Stevens was leaving Warwickshire, and the 

 whip referred to in the passage is probably Morris : 



Mr. Barnard lias a fine liunting country and a very working pack o£ 

 hounds, middle sized, and rather deficient in substance. Stevens is said to be 

 a steady, good man ; liis kennel discipline is first rate, and the hoiuids evince 

 a handiuess in the field surpassed by none. He came from the Duke of 

 Grafton, having been seven years under George Carter as first whip, and he 

 has now entered upon his eighth season with the Warwickshire, during which 

 time Mr. Barnard has been master. 



Leamington is a grand resort for the " visitors " who hunt with these 

 hoimds, and they are said to be not a few. The Warwickshire will only himt 



