CHAPTER IX. 



The Present Masters and Their Field. 



When Mr. C. E. Green was unable to continue as 

 master, much anxiety was felt for the future of the Essex 

 Hunt. In taking the office previously filled by "Sir 

 Henry," Mr. Green had no light task to perform ; yet so 

 able was his management that it was difficult to tell how 

 matters were to be arranged for the future without oriving' 

 ground for unfavourable comparisons. Since the death of 

 Mr. Loftus Wigram Arkwright, in 1889, his only son, 

 Mr. Loftus Joseph Wigram Arkwright has been looked 

 upon as entitled, by right of birth, to succeed in due time 

 to the office held for so many years by his father and 

 grandfather. The young squire has long been recognised 

 as " out and away " the best man to hounds with " The 

 Essex," and, as we have seen, he had made his dtfhi^ as 

 field master in the season 1888-9. But nowadays the 

 ownership of Essex land does not justify lavish expendi- 



