THE MEMBERS. 105 



Milltam E. -ffMU. 



" Rose-(.heck'J Adonis liieJ liliu to the chase ; 

 Hunting; he loved, but love he laugh'd to scorn." 



Poems — Venus mid Adonis. 



Ya\\\' Hall (as he is familiarly known to the R.R.B.) was born at 

 Brynibo Hall, near Wrexham. When he was a young man, his father came 

 to reside at Rock Ferry, in order to put his sons into business in Liverpool. 

 W. K. Hall went into a cotton broker's ofifice, but, finding that he did not 

 care for business, and being independent of it, he soon gave it up and 

 became absorbed in his pet hobbies — beagles and rose-growing. During liis 

 residence at Rock Ferry iie became '"infected" with the love of roses, 

 through his visits to his namesake, Mr. T. B. Hall, of Larchwood, who was, 

 and is, famous as the champion rose-grower of the district, winning first prizes 

 at all the flower shows held in the neighbourhood for many years past. After 

 the death of his father, W. E. Hall resided with his sister at Woodhey, near 

 Bebington, and on her marriage to one of our good beaglers — H. K. Hall — 

 he went into rooms at Higher Bebington, near the kennels. Here he earned 

 a great reputation as a rose-grower, winning many prizes ; he also devoted 

 himself to the hounds, taking all the trouble of kennel management off the 

 hands of our worthy Master, V, A. King. 



Hall was an indefatigable beagler, hunting at least three days a week 

 with the Chester Beagles and the R.R.B. He was an appointed and 

 efficient whip with both packs. He joined the R.R.B. in 1874, and hunted 

 with them for some sixteen seasons. It may be said of him that he was, 

 I)erhaps, the most useful member that ever joined the Hunt ; he paid almost 

 daily visits to the kennels, nursed the hounds when they were sick, and 

 walked with them to the meets, also home with them, after hunting, to the 

 kennels. It was at his instigation that the van we now have was purchased, 

 and it is open to anyone to surmise that his idea was to save his own legs 

 as much as to spare the hounds. 



In 1S89, during one of the excursions with the hounds to Chirk, when 

 we were hunting with the Llangollen Beagles on the hills. Hall had the mis- 

 fortune to stumble in getting over an awkward mountain wall, with a low 

 wire running along the top. He came down rather heavily on some loose 

 stones at the foot of the wall, and put his elbow out. This accident gave 

 him considerable trouble for many months, and seemed to deprive him of 

 his customary keenness for beagling. He resigned from the R.R.B. and 

 went to reside in Shropshire, occasionally, at long intervals, returning to his 

 old haunts, and receiving an enthusiastic welcome from his old friends the 

 beaglers whenever he appeared at a meet. Rumour sometimes announces 

 that he is about to return to reside in Wirral, and this gives rise to eager 

 anticipations that he will once more rejoin us at our sport. 

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