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loci by making free use of his stud. He is the latest 

 addition, in our hunting fields, to a large family circle, 

 sons and daughters of Sir Walter Gilbey, Sir James 

 Blyth, Mr. Henry Blyth, and Mr. Charles Gold, M.P. 

 These numerous cousins vie with each other in the pro- 

 motion of sport on the polo ground, and in the hunting 

 field, where the ardour of the faultlessly attired "Guy" 

 takes him to the front, though a fall may spoil his coat, or 

 a friend may carry off his hat. Well mounted and hard 

 riding members of these families, from Elsenham, Bishop 

 .Stortford and Stansted, hunt with and support the Essex 

 as well as the Puckeridge, of which latter pack Mr. 

 Tresham Gilbey is Secretary, jointly with Mr. Heaton 

 Ellis. 



Other followers of the hounds, resident within a few 

 miles of the kennels, are Mr. Edward Exton Barclay, 

 Master of the Epping Forest Harriers, and his brother- 

 in-law, Mr. Howard Fowler, both of Roydon, Mr. 

 Todhunter, a tried and trusted fox preserver, and Mr. 

 A. R. Steele, both of Parndon, Mr. R. C. Lyall, of 

 Hastingwood, and Mr. and Mrs. Weston Crocker, of 

 Hatfield Grange. 



From Matching Green comes Mr. I'"rnest Ouare. 

 Throughout the history of the Essex Hounds, the name 



