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Amherst, Earl Mostyn, Sir Charles H. Mills and 

 Lady Louisa Mills, the Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill 

 and Mrs. Nevill, Sir Walter Stirling, the Ladies 

 Pratt, Lady Caroline Nevill, Lady Isabel and Miss 

 BHgh, Colonel Streatfield, Mr. H. Lubbock, Colonel 

 Lennard, the Hon. Captain Amherst, Colonel M'Lean, 

 Colonels Risley, Evelyn, and Fitzroy, Mr. G. H. Field 

 and Mr. Barclay Field of Ashurst Park, Mr. J. G. 

 Leveson-Gower, Captain Masters (late Master of the 

 H.F.H.), Mr. A. Brassey, Mr. W. Dickinson of Eridge, 

 Mr. Leny (Master of the Mid-Kent Staghounds), Mr. 

 E. Durrant, Mr. Bates, Mr. H. Cramp, Miss Russell, 

 Mrs. Tuck, Mr. Quallett, Mr. Richard Russell of Ot- 

 ford Castle, the secretary of the West Kent Hunt, a 

 thorough-going sportsman, with whom I have had 

 a pleasant acquaintance for many a day ; Captain 

 Churchill, Captain W. H. Roberts, Mr. Fitch Kemp 

 of Foxbush, Mr. Waring, Mr. John Camden Hay- 

 ward, etc. 



On this occasion the opportunity was taken to 

 present the Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill w^ith a service 

 of plate of the value of 1000 guineas, in recognition 

 of many years' valued services as Master of the West 

 Kent Foxhounds. The magnificent testimonial was 

 presented by Sir W. Hart Dyke in an appropriate and 

 cheery manner, and the happy allusions, and the 

 hearty and feeling style of address, elicited much 

 and loud applause from the assembled sportsmen. 

 The master having returned thanks in an equally 

 happy style, not only for the testimonial itself, but 

 also for the silver horn presented by the ladies of the 

 West Kent Hunt, George Bollen and his whips 

 mounted their horses and moved off to draw an 



