MASTERS OF THE BUCKHOUNDS. 3 



I remember also Lord Kinnaird as Master of the 

 Buckhounds. He afterwards became the leader of a 

 religious party in London for some years, and his 

 name is still remembered by many Exeter Hall 

 Jiabitttes, who little thought he had ever held such a 

 post of worldly pastime. It was generally considered 

 that this nobleman was the chief cause of the gradual 

 break-up of the visit of the Royal pack to Aylesbury. 

 He used to bring- with him his wife, and they lived quietly 

 in their private rooms at the White Hart. The jovial 

 meetings of the Royal Hunt Club, thus deserted by the 

 gallant Master, lost their charm, and the dinner-party 

 rapidly diminished, as there was no centre round which 

 they could rally after the day's sport was ended, and no 

 company to recount the deeds of flood and field that 

 might have distinguished it. The late Lord Rosslyn, as 

 Master, I shall not forget, nor how, in riding home after 

 a most severe run with a heavy and blinding storm of 

 hail and sleet driving into our faces, my horse trod on 

 the toe of a hound, causing him to cry out and whimper, 

 when his lordship, who was a very quick-tempered man, 

 blew me up in no very measured terms, till my good 

 friend, Charles Davis, the Royal huntsman, came to my 

 aid ; and in the evening Lord Rosslyn apologized to 

 me for his hasty temper. 



Another and most popular Master I knew and have 

 enjoyed a ride with — I mean Lord Cork ; and I shall not 

 forget him, as Lord Dungarvan, riding over our farm in 

 the Broughton country at one of the Oxford " 'Varsity " 

 steeplechases, and seeing him go for the last two miles 

 in the most dashing style without his cap, as he had lost it 



