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turn into bed. No constitution could long stand such 

 a strain, and it is not surprising that the Duke should 

 have died at the early age of thirty-four. 



During the minority of the fifth Duke, who was but 

 a child at the time of his father's death, the Belvoir 

 Hounds were managed by a committee, who appointed 

 Lord George Cavendish as Master, and he was succeeded 

 by Sir Carnaby Haggerston, who, in his turn, yielded 

 the horn to that fine old sportsman, Mr Perceval, brother 

 of Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister murdered by 

 Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons. 

 In the year 1799 the Duke took over the hounds 

 himself, and the first huntsman of whom there is any 

 record was Woods, a Hampshire man, who had hunted 

 the New Forest with Major Gilbert. 



Newman was Woods' successor, and carried the horn for 

 eleven years. Then came ' Gentleman Shaw ' from Sir 

 Thomas Mostyn, who gained his sobriquet from his 

 courtesy and urbanity, and left behind him the reputation 

 of a fine horseman and a good huntsman. He was 

 succeeded in 18 16 by the well-known Goosey, who had 

 already been whip to the Belvoir since 1796, and whose 

 connection with the pack did not terminate till 1842, his 

 service thus covering a period of eight-and-forty years. 

 He was a fine, powerful horseman and a capital 

 huntsman. 



The fifth Duke is described as being ' of a tall and 

 noble presence, exceedingly elegant and dignified in 

 manner, but singularly courteous in his reception of 

 those who had business with him.' He was, indeed, 

 the very type and model of an English gentleman and 

 sportsman, and no landlord in the three kingdoms was 

 more beloved by his tenantry than he. But fond as he 



