INTRODUCTION 



*' Cheshire Chivalry." Mounted on his bay horse 

 "Tatton," Mr. Shakerley figures as manager in the 

 foreground of Calvert's picture of the Cheshire Hunt. 

 In 1839, Mr. Smith Barry, of Marbury, and Mr. 

 Dixon, of Astle, undertook the control of the Kennel. 

 Mr. Ford, of Abbey Field, who succeeded them, 

 held the management for the season only of 1841, 

 and resigned it into the hands of Mr. White. 



" Leicestershire White," as he is called in Mr. 

 Wicksted's Song, w^as known far and wide for many 

 years as one of the best horsemen in England, whether 

 in the racing or in the hunting saddle. After retiring 

 from the management, he still occupied the Hunting 

 Box, adjoining the Kennel, at Daleford. Continuing 

 to hunt with the Cheshire, and riding to the last as 

 well as ever, he resided there till his death in 1866. 



In May, 1862, a portrait and memoir of him 

 was published in Bailys- Magazine. Further par- 

 ticulars of his career were afterwards recorded in 

 several sporting periodicals, and an interesting article 

 appeared in the Saturday Review, February 1866, 

 where, in a quotation, he is spoken of as having 

 " left an undying reputation as a Gentleman Jockey 

 and Fox-hunter." 



His mastership ceased in 1855, when the Pack 

 was handed over to Captain Mainwaring. Owing 

 to circumstances to which it is needless here to allude, 

 at the beginning of the Season of 1856 many of the 

 landowners warned the Hounds off their estates, and, 

 in compliance with their wishes, the hunting men 

 were compelled to submit to the loss of their sport 

 rather than cause a dissension in the county. 

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