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ROYAL ROCK BEAGLE HUNT. 



1892. i8g2—Cvi!tit!iu':L 



E. Bateson. J. Heap. 

 CapnBlennerhasset. G. W. Morrison. 

 M. A. G. Dowie. M. Schintz. 



W. Edmunds. 

 J. H. Gair. 



F. Holt. 

 M. L. Mills. 



1893. 

 H. O. Cowie, 

 H. C. Duncan. 

 D.C.F.Pennefather. D. B. Halhed. 



1893 — Cojiti lined. 

 C. W. Laird. 

 H. W. Draper. 

 A. G. Wood. 

 T. Royden. 

 R. Beckett. 



1894. 

 C. R. Anderson. 



1894 — Continued , 

 T. C. H. Castle. 

 P. V. Churton. 



F. Edmondson. 

 R. Edmondson. 

 H. C. Neilson. 

 H. Todd. 



C. J. Williamson. 



G. D. Wilson. 



J. MacDonald. 



R. Jacl<son. 



Thos. Brocklebank. C. W. Wvatt. 



Bncient Celclnlties of tbc H^unt. 



" If speaking truth 

 In this fine age, were not thought flattery." 



Ilenry //', rni't I, act n\ scene i. 



The deeds of these gentlemen are recorded in tlie Sport Books of the 

 Hunt, which were well kept for the first ten years by H. Walford and V. A. 

 King, and are also celebrated in song by C. Rawson, who had the knack of 

 hitting off the pecuHaiities and attributes of liis friends. It is to be deplored 

 that so few of tlieni are alive at tl^.is day. From the life-tables of insurance 

 CDmivanies it may be gathered, tliat out of one hundred men of the com- 

 mercial class aged between twenty-five and thirty, about twenty should survive 

 for fifty years. How many of the first hundred members of tlie R.R.B. are 

 now alive ? As beaglers are presumably all robust and healthy men, of active 

 habits, we should expect the result to beat the presumption of the life-tables 

 calculated on averages, the bad with the good. It can be ascertained that a 

 dozen of tliis hundred are stjrviving, and it may well be that many others are 

 still to the fore, though it is very difficult to trace them in the changes of a 

 large commercial community like that of Liverpool. 



Several of the ancient celebrities of the Hunt are shown in the picture 

 of the beaglers at Beeston, painted in 1S48 by Herr Trautschald. A 

 reproduction of this picture is i)laced opposite this j^age. Beginning at 

 the left, the three figures above are those of Robert Christie (left), C. Rawson 

 (centre), and William Bowman. The two seated in the foreground are 

 William A\'atson (left) and Robert Tinley. The central figure with the long 

 stick is that of William Fostei', with his hand on the shoulder of Thomas 

 Arthur Bushby ; "William Lyon comes next, and then on the right the 

 two Walfords— Alfred Walford with the scut in his hat; and Henry Walford 

 with his long boots. The following song was composed by C. Rawson, 

 a propos of this picture : — 



