THE BILSDALE HUNT. 47 



drawn up, I believe, by Mr. Selby Lowndes hopelessly 

 incorrect. Mr. W. Scarth Dixon's list in "The North 

 Countree" is helpful, but incomplete and vague. The 

 following will be found as accurate — whilst yet necessarily 

 not pretending to be absolutely correct— a table as it is 

 possible to draw up : — 



Duke of Buckingham 16 . . to 1687 



R. Forster (High Thornhill) 



J. Dawson (Orra) about 40 years. 



J. Hughill (Ellermire) 1770 to 1800 



W. Medd 1800 1810 



W. Garbutt (Elmhouse) 1810 1816 



Mr. Rickitson (hounds trencher-fed 



around Swainby) 1816 1825 



Richard Tate ) 



LeonardLengl I825 183 ° 



G. Bell, Senr. (Chop Gate) 1830 1837 



G. Bell, Junr 1837 1853 



Pack almost extinct 14 years 1853 1867 



Squire Barr (Holly Bower) 1867 1870 



Nicholas Spink (Bilsdale) 1870 1886 



Nicholas Spink i 



R. Garbutt } 1886 1887 



F. Wilson Horsfall (Potto) 1888 1889 



R. Garbutt ^ 



R. Hatching (Swainby) / 1889 1897 



H. W. Selby Lowndes (Carlton) 1897 1900 



T. Bentley and Committee (Bilsdale) 1900 1903 



F. Wilson Horsfall (Potto) 1903 



As has already been stated, Robert Forster, of High 

 Thornhill, Bilsdale, who was huntsman to the Duke, 

 continued to fill that position after the death of his ducal 

 employer. For many years he carried on the sport, no doubt 

 in much the same manner as it was conducted up to a couple 

 of decades ago. His connection by marriage with the 

 Dawson family — a connection perfectly clear, as already 

 demonstrated, in the genealogy of the two families — perhaps 

 accounts for the appearance of J. Dawson, after a period 

 regarding which hunting history is silent. 



There were at one time minute books extant regarding 

 this period, which would have been most useful in the 



