1-94 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1895 



are not able to undertake to guarantee a sum of more than 

 2500/. as subscription for next season. 



A special meeting of the subscribers to the hounds 

 and owners of coverts and others was held at the Warwick 

 Arms Hotel on April lOth, 1S95, the following being 

 present : Jjord North (chairman), Lord AVilloughby de 

 Broke, Lord Chesham, Hon. MV. North, Captain Osborne, 

 Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Brooke Eobinson, M.P., Mr. Blyth, 

 Captain Paul, Mr. Starkey, Mr. Johnson, Major Armstrong, 

 Rev. H. Knightley, Mr. JolUffe, Mr. Basil Hanbury, Mr. 

 Smith Ryland, Mr. Williams, Mr. Mackay, Mr. Gaskell, 

 and Mr. Lea : 



Lord Willoughby de Bi-oke proposed to hunt the 

 country fom- days a week from November 1st, Ls95, to 

 April 1st, 1896, the sum of 8000/. being guaranteed him 

 for that purpose. Any amount subscribed over 3600/. 

 to be returned by Lord Willoughby de Broke. 



Lord Chesham proposed, and Mr. Jolliffe seconded : 

 " That Lord AVilloughby de Broke's proposal be accepted." 

 Carried unanimously. 



We should not like to finish this volume without 

 mentioning that at the end of the season Lord Southampton 

 bouffht Idlicote House and came to reside there. This 

 was of great advantage to the hunting country and to the 

 preservation of foxes, as the place had been without a 

 tenant for many years. It is not too much to say that he 

 is the best rider to hounds w^e have ever seen in the 

 country, and, at the same time, he is never in anybody's 

 way. Lady Southampton is quite as fond of hunting as 

 he is, and is a perfect rider. 



On May 2()th Lord North had an extraordinary escape 

 of his life, about which he has given us the following 

 particulars : He was walking at 5.30 in the evening up 

 Pall Mall, from the Carlton Club to St. James' Street. 

 When in front of the Oxford and Cambridge Club he 

 heard a crash, and saw a lot of masonry falling from the 

 top of a house on the other side of the street exactly 

 opposite him, and the passers by running and ducking to 



