276 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1866 



given notice of liis intention to give up the hounds a 

 meeting was held at AVellesbourne, there being present Sir 

 Charles Mordaunt, Colonel Campbell, Captain Lomax, 

 Captain Peach, Messrs. E. Bolton King, Gusta\ais Smith, 

 H. Spencer Lucv, F. Perry, J. Starkey, R. Allenby, Gr. 

 Hawkes, H. J. Sheldon, W. H. Allfrey, J. Holford, and E. C. 

 Pobertson. The following resolution was passed unani- 

 mously : — " That this meeting has heard with great regret 

 Mr. North's intention of resigning the mastership of the 

 Warwickshire Hounds, and they consider the best thanks 

 of the country are due to him for the very liberal and 

 popular way in which the country has been hunted during 

 his management." This, in a few words, thoroughly repre- 

 sented the feelings of everyone throughout the country 

 who were in any way connected with it during Mr. North's 

 mastership. His invariable good temper and geniality had 

 made him very popular with all classes. Indeed, it was 

 quite proverbial both at that time and always afterwards. 

 He had spent his money most liberally on the hunting of 

 the country, and he had greatly improved the pack of 

 hounds ; and we have already borne testimony to the 

 advantage reaped hereafter by the good blood which he, 

 with the able assistance of Matthews, introduced into it. 

 When Mr. Noi-th gave up the Bicester hounds and again 

 hunted with the Warwickshire, he was as fond of the sport 

 as he had ever been, and probably no one else in the 

 country rode such distances to covert, and returned home 

 from so far as he did to Wroxton Abbey, nearly every day 

 on which the hounds hunted for many years afterwards. 



I remember staying at the hospitable house of Grumley 

 Hall, in Leicestershire, in January, 186G. The present 

 Lord Shrewsbury, at that time six years old, was dressed 

 for hunting in full costume, and, when mounted on a 

 very small pony, was put into the brake in which our 

 host, Lord Ligestre, drove us to covert, pony and all, and 

 was lifted out of the carriage again, and put down at the 

 meet.— C. M. 



At another meeting, held at Wellesbourne in March^ 



