CHAPTER XVIII. 



MR. PENN C. SHERBROOKE. 



Mr. Penn C. Sherbrooke became Master of the Sinnington 

 in 1894, and from the very outset proved himself a sportsman. 

 The son of the Rev. Neviie and Lady Alice Sherbrooke, 

 (a daughter of the second Earl Howe), he was born in 1871, 

 at Penn House, Buckinghamshire, and in due course went to 

 Eton, and from there to Christ Church, Oxford. In 1889-90, 

 he rowed in the Eton eight, and in 1892 in the Christ Church 

 boat, in which year he went down. After a couple of seasons' 

 hunting with the Earl of Harrington's Hounds in Nottingham- 

 shire and the Belvoir, he came North to Yorkshire as the 

 M.F.H. of the Sinnington, and commenced to form a 

 pack of hounds, which, after some seasons, was a credit to 

 any kennels. Mr. Sherbrooke does not claim all the honour for 

 this. He had the able assistance of his wife, who is quite 

 as competent a judge of hounds as most men, and this is 

 hardly to be wondered at when it is remembered that she is a 

 daughter of the immortal Mr. John Chatworth Musters, of 

 venatic and hound fame. Mr. Musters hunted the South 

 Nottingham country from 1860 to 1868, and again from 

 1871 to 1876, whilst he had the Quorn Hounds from 1868 to 

 1870. Mrs. Sherbrooke's girlhood, therefore, was essentially 

 spent in the atmosphere of horse and hound and the chase. 

 Her actual hunting career commenced under Mr. Rolleston 

 in South Notts, he having succeeded her father in 1876. 

 It was continued there under Lord Harrington after 1882. 

 Mrs. Sherbrooke was one of the few who saw the finish of 

 Mr. Rolleston's great run of February, 1881, when hounds 

 ran for nearly three hours, making an eleven mile point, 

 and covering 30 miles of country. On Mr. Muster's death, 

 in 1887, the present Mrs. Sherbrooke accompanied her 

 mother (daughter of the late Henry Sherbrooke, of Oxton, 

 Notts) to Wiverton Hall, another family place on 



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