44 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1880 



Mr. John Hetherington, Mr. Ernest King*, Colonel the 

 Hon. C. Molyneux, Mr. Sthling Stewart, Mr. Hattield 

 Harter, Mr. Cecil Boyle, Major Greene, late of the 5th 

 Dragoon CInards ; Mr. P. A. Muntz, M.P. ; ^Ir. Edgar 

 Hibbert, Mr. J. W. Lowe, of Ettington ; the Hon. F. 

 Dudley Leigh, Mr. L. Ireland-Blyth, and the Rev. H. E. 

 Knightley. 



There is a lust in mau no cliarni can tame, 

 Of loudly pu.blisliing his neighbour's shame ; 

 On eagle wings immortal slanders fly, 

 While virtuous actions are but born to die. 



— Sportincf Magazine. 



Captain Allfrey, late of the OOth Rifles, has hunted for 

 many years in Warwickshire. Notwithstanding that he 

 rides 18st., he is a very good man to hounds. We remember 

 on one occasion, when hunting near Oxhill, we came, as is 

 too often the case now, to a gate locked as well as fastened 

 at the hinges. Captain Allfrey got off his horse, and put 

 his back against it. Soon afterwards we saw the cracks 

 begin to oj)en in the ground near the gate-post, and he 

 pulled the latter clean out of the ground, and threw the 

 gate over into the held, much in the same way as Samson 

 probably upheaved the gate of Claza. This required 

 prodigious strength, and no one else hunting with the 

 Warwickshire hounds could have done it. He has an 

 extraordinary eye to hounds, and, for his w^eight, rides 

 wonderfully light on a horse ; is now hon. sec. to the 

 Hunt, and a very popular one, too. Rents Chadshunt, 

 and long may he live there. 



Mr. C. B. H. Whitworth, when he came to the 

 Warwickshire from Leicestershire, resided first at Bloxham, 

 near Banbury. He afterwards took Chadshunt, the seat 

 of Mr. E. Raleigh King, close to Kineton, where he 

 remained for several years^ when he went to Ashby St. 

 Ledgers, in Northamptonshire. He is a bold rider, and a 

 staunch supporter of foxhunting. He has had two very 

 bad falls — one on the top of Ladbroke Hill in 18S8, and 



