2 24 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Since the death of the Rev. Frederick Fane, the Rev. 

 George Maryon Wilson, Vicar of Great Canfield, and the 

 Rev. Lawrence Capel Cure, Rector of Abbess Roding, 

 may be claimed as Chaplains of the Essex Hunt. Their 

 guidance is equally safe when they are in the pulpit, and 

 when, accompanied by their daughters, they make plain 

 the intricacies of the Roothings in pursuit of hounds. 



Foremost among the military members of the hunt is 

 Major-General Sir Evelyn Wood, V.C., youngest son of 

 the late Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bart., of Rivenhall 

 and Cressing, Essex. Major Alfred Henry Carter, of 

 Tilbury Fort, is an undaunted man across any country. 

 Mrs. Carter also goes well to hounds. Major Maitland 

 Wilson, Captain Ricardo, and Captain Dalrymple Bruce 

 are all resident in the country, and each of them is 

 accompanied in the hunting-field by his wife. 



A glance over the various divisions of the country, 

 taken somewhat in the order of description chosen in 

 Chapter I., will bring before us the "rank and file" of the 

 field. On the London side of the country we find at 

 Walthamstow the Messrs. Horner — father and son — of 

 whom the former has hunted with the Essex Hounds 

 almost as long as Mr. George Hart. He can still outstay 

 many men half his age in a long hack home after a 



