THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



There is one opinion that Tom Clark held with 

 which I believe the present Duke of Beaufort and 

 Lord Lonsdale would both be found to agree. 

 Clark liked his big dog pack the best, and in the 

 Badminton country, where hounds are wanted that 

 can fly the walls, I can well believe they are the 

 most useful. 



When Clark left, he yielded the horn in the field 

 to the present Duke, then Lord Worcester, and his 

 kennel duties fell to Charles Hamblin, who has just 

 (1900) passed away. Hamblin was a man who loved 

 his work, and the pack lost nothing under his care. 

 The Duke was careful he should have plenty of 

 opportunities of seeing his hounds in their work. 

 Hamblin always carried the horn during cub- 

 hunting, and frequently also during the regular 

 season. 



I saw the pack in his time, and I remember still 

 one hound, Rubicon, keen and hard-looking, whose 

 dam, Lilly, was by Lumen, a famous Badminton 

 hound. This last is the hound depicted in the 

 Badminton book on hunting, with his hackles up, 

 dashing at his fox, the original picture of which is 

 in the smoking-room at Badminton. In those days 

 Remus was a favourite, and his son. Ranger, was 

 good to look at. I recollect, too, the beautiful 

 Portsmouth dog pack, which later I was to see in 

 the field, for during the next season it was my good 

 fortune to hunt with the Beaufort hounds. The 

 last time I saw the hounds there, Will Dale was the 



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