314 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



Another Crimean veteran who gained the V.C. for 

 his bravery at Alma and Inkerman is Lord 

 Wantage, Colonel of the Royal Berkshire Volunteers 

 from i860 till 1895, and an ex-chairman of the 

 English Red Cross Society. His energy in the 

 interests of the Yeomanry in Berks is well known. 

 Few men are better known in the hunting-field 

 than the Earl of Lonsdale. When, in 1883, he 

 accepted the Mastership of the Ouorn he was re- 

 garded as a martinet by a certain section of his 

 followers, but he was popular with the farmers. A 

 Yeomanry officer who is popular with the farmers 

 is sure to be popular with his troopers, while a man 

 who can keep a Ouorn field in order should be able 

 to lead men to victory. Not that I consider that the 

 Earl of Lonsdale was a martinet in the sense in 

 which the term is usually applied. He made rules, 

 and took care that they were obeyed. But the rules 

 were reasonable. He objected to men larking or 

 jumping fences unnecessarily when hounds were not 

 running, and he insisted that second horsemen should 

 follow the second horsemen of the hunt servants. 

 He has had plenty of military experience, for he is 

 the Hereditary Admiral of the coasts of Cumberland 

 and Westm.oreland, Lord Warden of the West 

 Marsh, Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Battalion Border 

 Regiment, Honorary Colonel of the Cumberland 

 Artillery Volunteers, and Colonel of the Westmore- 

 land and Cumberland Yeomanry Cavalry. He is 

 now in his forty-fourth year, is as strong as the pro- 



