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In 1850 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy, of Charlecote Park, 

 succeeded Lord Willoughloy de Broke in the management 

 of the hounds, and the sum guaranteed to him at the 

 commencement of his mastership was 1900/. He was an 

 ardent, all-round sportsman, a light weight, riding twelve 

 stone, and a fine horseman. During the first period of his 

 mastership, and for part of the second period, he rode 

 extremely well to hounds. He was mounted on very well 

 bred horses up to thirteen and fourteen stone. Amongst his 

 best hunters were a chesnut mare called Minna, which he 

 rode in a snaffle bridle, and a chesnut horse called Goldfinder. 

 Minna was very good at water, and we remember seeing 

 Mr. Lucy jump the Han well brook on her wdien the water 

 was bank high and no one else got over it, and if hounds 

 had continued to run he would have remained alone with 

 them, but, as has often happened on a similar occasion, 

 they threw up only two fields beyond the brook. Others 

 of Mr. Lucy's favourite hunters were a black horse called 

 First Flight, Grayling, Golden Hue, a chesnut horse 

 Lavender, and a gray horse called Heads and Tails. He 

 also owned several good steeplechase horses which he 

 trained at home. The best of these was Tipperary 

 Boy. 



In Mr. Lucy's character w^re united a good many 

 traits of the old-fashioned country squire, and he was 

 always called Squire Lucy to the end of his days, even in 

 these modern times. In 1865 he married Christina, eldest 

 daughter of the late Mr. Campbell, of Monzie. In 1867, 

 he was High Sheriff for Warwickshire. He very much 

 frightened Her Majesty's jndge on that occasion, when 

 taking him to dinner at Stoneleigh Abbey in the family 

 coach, all Cee springs and cushions, with four horses, one of 

 which was a young thoroughbred hunter that had never 

 been in harness* before. The worthy judge kept bounding 



* Trying a Horse. — The late Chief Justice Doherty used to tell a good story 

 of his posting days He was going circuit in a post-chaise, and at a dangerous part, 

 where the road skirted a descent, one of the horses, which had been behaving badly, 

 began kicking furiously. Much alarmed, Doherty called out, " This is outrageous ! I 

 don't think that horse has ever been in harness before." " Bedad, your lordship's 



