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till 1836, when he was succeeded by Mr Delme-Radcliffe, 

 the kennels having been removed from Hatfield to 

 Kennesbourne Green near Harpenden, where they 

 remained till Mr John Gerard Leigh signalised his 

 Mastership by building, at his own expense, the present 

 magnificent kennels at Luton Hoo in 1866. 



For five seasons Mr Delme-Radcliffe hunted the 

 Hertfordshire country. ' Here,' says a writer in Baily's 

 Magazine, with a good stock of old foxes and incessant 

 labour in collecting an effective pack (at once drafting 

 all but fifteen couples of that to which he succeeded), 

 and in the second season having sixty-five couples, 

 which by the next reached perfection, he showed an 

 amount of sport quite incredible, and laid the foundation 

 of a system admirably followed up by Lord Dacre, to 

 whom, under a serious failure of health, Mr Delme- 

 Radcliffe resigned the hounds in 1839.' 



It was during Mr Delme-Radcliffe's Mastership of 

 the Hertfordshire that the famous Wendover run took 

 place. They found in Kensworth Gorse, and ran their fox 

 some miles beyond Wendover, where they lost him in a 

 rick-yard, after a thirty-mile run, during which Will 

 Boxall, the huntsman, killed one very valuable mare and 

 knocked up two other horses, the last being supplied 

 to him by a farmer near Tring. The Hon. Edward 

 Grimston, a terrific ' bruiser ' (in the hunting sense), Mr 

 Edward Daniel and James Simpkins, the first whip, 

 were the only ones of a large field that were in at the 

 finish of this extraordinary run. Mr Daniel's horse was 

 so pumped out that he went blind. The fox was found the 

 next morning dead under a faggot. In referring to this 

 memorable event as a proof of the grand qualities of the 

 ' Segrave blood,' Mr Delme-Radcliffe tells us in 'The 



