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In later years the two brothers were well known with 

 the Pytchley and Hertfordshire Hounds, and were some- 

 times the guests of that famous sportsman, Mr. Delme 

 Radcliffe,' whose sister married Mr. R. Y. Bevan's uncle, 

 the Hon. E. T. Yorke, many years M.P. for Cambridge- 

 shire. 



Mr. H. O. Nethercote, in his history of the Pytchley 

 Hunt, published in 1888, says of Mr. R. C. L. Bevan, who 

 was then justly famed for his philanthropic and religious 

 zeal, that he " would probably doubt his own identity were 

 he to be told that at one time there was no one except 

 himself who could beat his brother ' Dick' across Leicester- 

 shire or Northamptonshire. That it was so, however, no 

 one is more willing to allow than the younger of the two 

 brothers." 



Mr. Roland Bevan's share in the sport of the Essex 

 Hounds dates from the time when the Messrs. Green 

 settled in the county. He has kindly furnished us with 

 the following" account of one of his early adventures in the 

 field in Essex. Whilst Mr. C. E. Green lived at Tumours, 

 Mr. Bevan was on one occasion riding home from hunting 



' Mr. Delme Radcliffe succeeded Mr. Sebright as Master of the Hertford- 

 shire Hounds, in the year 1836, and hunted the country until 1839 or 1840. He 

 wrote " Notitia Venatica," which was published in 1839 ; a new edition of the 

 work appeared in 1893. 



