THE ESSEX HUNT COUNTRY. ' I I 



the Hunt, and died in 1891, universally respected, beloved 

 and revered ; the property then passed to his nephew, 

 Lieut.-Col. George Bramston Archer, who has taken the 

 name of Archer-Houblon. 



Mark Hall, near Harlow, is rich in sporting associa- 

 tions. In the latter part of the last century, it was the seat 

 of Colonel Montague Burgoyne, upon whose invitation 

 Mr. Thomas William Coke, afterwards Earl of Leicester 

 (not to be confounded with Colonel John Cook already 

 referred to) e.xtended his country into Essex. After the 

 marriage of Colonel Burgoyne's two daughters, the property 

 was put up to auction in the year 18 19 and purchased by 

 Mr. Richard Arkwright for his son Joseph, who had, in the 

 previous year, married a daughter of Sir Robert Wigram. 

 Joseph was one of a family of eleven. Their grandfather, 

 by the invention of the "spinning frame," and the erection 

 of mills for its use, had founded the great cotton industry 

 of Lancashire, and their father had carried on the family 

 concerns with such success as to gain the reputation 

 of being the " Richest Commoner in England." The Revd. 

 Joseph Arkwright lived at Mark Hall until his death in 

 1864, after seven seasons' mastership of the Essex 

 Hounds. His son, the late Mr. Loftus Arkwright, 

 who succeeded him in his estates and in the mastership, 



