lO THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Easton Lodge is now the property of Colonel Maynard's 

 daughter, the Countess of Warwick. The Essex Hunt has 

 good reason for pride in her Ladyship's constant attach- 

 ment to the sport afforded by her native county. In the 

 hunting held her popularity is as unbounded as elsewhere, 

 and much satisfaction is felt that the Earl and Countess 

 have not entirely left Easton Lodge, though necessarily 

 they are often at Warwick Castle, where her Ladyship has 

 most kindly been photographed for the frontispiece of this 

 book. 



Hallingbury Place, near Bishop Stortford, is the seat 

 of the Houblon family, which gave the Bank of England 

 its first Governor, and from one of whose daughters Lord 

 Palmerston was descended. Two members of the family, 

 father and son, each named John Archer Houblon, lived 

 here in succession from about the beginning of the present 

 century until 1891. 



The father rendered important service to the Essex 

 Hounds by uniting with Lord Maynard in the purchase of 

 Colonel Cook's pack. He was also for a time Master of the 

 Puckeridge. He died in 1831 and was succeeded by his 

 son, who was a firm friend to foxhunting during his sixty 

 years' tenure of the property. For many years during the 

 latter part of his life he presided at the Annual Meetings of 



