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hundred and seventy-eight friends and well-wishers, in 

 acknowledgment of his merits as a huntsman, and of 

 his constant and successful endeavours to show sport. 

 30th October 1872.' 



But George lived to carry the horn for another fifteen 

 years, until his final retirement in 1887. He died in 

 1894, a fine specimen of the best type of huntsman. 



On the retirement of Mr H. Wickham in 1892, after 

 eighteen years' Mastership, Mr Joshua Fielden hunted 

 the pack for three seasons, when he was succeeded by the 

 present Master, Mr George Charles Wentworth Fitz- 

 william, and thus, after an interregnum of one-and- 

 twenty years, the Fitzwilliam Hounds once more had 

 a Fitzwilliam at their head. Mr Fitzwilliam is the only 

 son of the late Hon. George Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 

 and was born in 1866. On leaving Eton he entered the 

 Royal Horse Guards (Blue), but retired from the regi- 

 ment on attaining the rank of lieutenant. Subsequently 

 he became captain in the Oxfordshire Militia, but has 

 now given up soldiering altogether. He is a J.P. for 

 Northamptonshire, and was High Sheriff of the County 

 in 1894. At an alarming crisis, when the famous old pack 

 was threatened with extinction for want of a Master, Mr 

 Fitzwilliam, like the good sportsman he is, sacrificed his 

 personal inclinations and undertook the Mastership him- 

 self, with the able assistance of Mr C. B. E, WnVht. 

 ex-Master of the Badsworth, who relieves him of most of 

 the technical duties. In these capable hands there need 

 be no fear that the future of the Fitzwilliam Hunt will 

 be less brilliant than its past. 



