78 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



each other and Jem Morgan hunted the hounds for 

 Mr. Conyers until the year 1848, when he transferred 

 his services to the Essex Union (under Mr. Scratton), 

 and with them he remained for three seasons ; but, findinor 

 the work too severe for his increasing" years, as was 

 said, he resigned in 1852, though only to become 

 huntsman, at the age of 68, to Lord Lonsdale, who 

 mounted him in first-rate style ; and, in his new sphere, 

 the old man contrived to hunt five days a week, and 

 occasionally six. During the season 1860-61, Jem 

 Morgan retired in favour of his son Goddard, who 

 ultimately wore the yellow plush of the old Berkeley, 

 under that most popular of masters. Lord Maiden. In 

 January, 1862, old Jem was riding to meet Lord Lons- 

 dale's Hounds when his horse stumbled and fell by 

 the road side. The veteran remounted, accompanied 

 the pack to the place of meeting and holloaed the fox 

 away. Acting on the advice of his friends, however, he left 

 the hunting field, for he was evidently much shaken, and 

 on a medical examination beings made it was found 

 that he had sustained injury to his neck from the 

 effects of which he died on the removal of his hunting- 

 tie. At the time of his death his four sons were all in 

 harness. Goddard, as already mentioned, succeeded 



