CHAPTER VIII. 



The Essex Hunt {confiiuicd) — Mr. C. E. Green. 



Mr. Charles Erxest Green, by whom the field 

 mastership of the Essex Hounds was undertaken when 

 Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson gave up the pack, belongs to a 

 family of shipbuilders and shipowners whose name has for 

 generations been a household word to P^nglishmen. 



Before the days of steamships and the Suez Canal 

 the clipper-ships of the firm -known as "Green's Service" 

 — afforded the established means ot transit to India ; and, 

 in our own day, the firm has taken a leading part in the 

 management of the Orient line of steamers. 



The family has connections, of long standing, with both 

 the county of Esse.x and the Essex Hunt, through the 

 families of Wigram and Perry, of which the former is 

 closely allied to the Arkwrights ; while the latter, as we 

 have seen, furnished Sir Henry Ibbetson with his coadjutor 

 — Mr. J. \\\ Perry Watlington — on Mr. L. W. Arkwright's 



