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educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 Mr Fitzwilliam was early entered to hounds under 

 the mentorship of old Tom Sebright. When he 

 went up to Cambridge, he started the draghounds, of 

 which he was Master during his University career. I 

 remember well the excitement among sporting graduates 

 and undergraduates over the revival of steeplechasing at 

 Cottenham, largely due to his exertions and those of his 

 friend, Mr Nathan de Rothschild, who presented the 'Var- 

 sity with a handsome challenge whip to be run for annually 

 over three miles of fair hunting country. And there was 

 the great Inter-'Varsity Steeplechase at Aylesbury in 

 1863, when the Light Blues scored a brilliant triumph, 

 securing first, second, and third places, and Mr Fitzwilliam 

 owned the winner and rode the second horse, also his own 

 property. Later on, both at the Curragh and Punches- 

 town, Mr Fitzwilliam proved himself a fine horseman. 

 His great jump over the big double, when he won the 

 Conyngham Cup at Punchestown, is still remembered 

 with admiration. He has never, I believe, been without 

 a pack of harriers, and for some years he hunted the 

 Fitzwilliam hounds in Yorkshire. 



No sketch of the Fitzwilliam Hunt would be complete 

 without mention of good old George Carter, who for 

 more than forty years carried the horn to these hounds. 

 In 1872 George received a very handsome recognition of 

 his services in the form of a testimonial presented to him 

 at a dinner given at the Angel Hotel, when Lord Kesteven, 

 as chairman, handed him a noble silver cup with the 

 following inscription : ' Presented to George Carter after 

 twenty-seven years' service, sixteen as whipper-in and 

 eleven as huntsman of the Fitzwilliam Hounds, together 

 with £762, in money, from the subscriptions of three 



