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whose interest in foxhunting remains unabated in her 

 seventy-fifth year. We have mentioned in an earlier 

 chapter how indomitably the late Mr. Raincock hunted 

 in Essex without spending the night away from his home 

 in Surrey. When he died, in the same year with Mr. 

 Perry Watlington, it was felt that the hunt had been 

 deprived of its two best supporters. 



The families by whom farming has been most success- 

 fully carried on within the boundaries of the E.ssex Hunt 

 are those of Christy and Marriage, in the neighbourhood 

 of Chelmsford. Mr. David Christy has regularly hunted 

 with the Essex Hounds for more than fifty years, and both 

 of these families are well to the fore in the preservation 

 and pursuit of foxes. The well-known sporting fainilv of 

 Sworder is represented with the Essex Hounds by that 

 most graceful of horsemen, Mr. Harry Sworder, of 

 Tawnev Hall, who unites with Mr. Georg-e Milbank, of 

 Roxwell, in securing the support of the hunt to the 

 Farmers' Benevolent Association. Other farmers, who 

 are not prevented by bad times from joining in the sport, 

 are Mr. Green, of Parndon, Mr. Waltham, of Stanford 

 Rivers, Mr. Newman, and Mr. P'ry, of Barnston ; and in 

 the northern f)art of the country, Mr. Richardson, Mr. 

 Beadel, Mr. Scruby, and the veteran, Mr. King, of Bard- 

 field, may be mentioned among others. 



