22 2 Mr. Selhy- Lowndes. 



As well as conducting his clerical duties in an 

 able manner he took the lead in his parishioners' 

 games, pleasures, and holidays. No child who 

 ever knew that good man will forget the kindness 

 received at his hands. No man could be more 

 respected in his generation than he was. The 

 poor — and the foxes — have lost their best friend. 



This good pastor was sixty years at Preston 

 Capes. Late in life he succeeded to the Fawsley 

 estate ; but, in his great unselfishness and 

 generosity, he at once made it over to the present 

 baronet. 



Mr. Selby-Lowndes. 



The late Mr. William Selby - Lowndes com- 

 menced to hunt the upper part of the Grafton 

 country in the autumn of 1842. He was a great 

 admirer of George Carter, and took Dickens, 

 the second whipper-in, as his kennelman and 

 whipper-in. Mr. Lowndes always *fed his hounds 

 on Indian meal. He also had a notion, which 

 does not go down with many people, that a 

 hound need not be so very straight, and always 

 maintained that those which were not so were the 

 best wearers. At any rate he soon got together 

 a killing pack of hounds, and could catch his 

 foxes with them. I remember his bringing his 



