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THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



The first Secretary and Treasurer of the Club was 

 Mr. Hervey Foster, son of the Rev. Sir Cavendish 

 Foster, rector of Theydon Garnon, a kindly, genial soul 

 if ever there was one ; an excellent sportsman and a 



Hervey Foster. 



fine horseman. In the following May (1882), while in 

 Ireland, he met with a bad accident out hunting, a 

 sad mishap which called forth a spontaneous vote of 



