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So devotedly fond was he of shooting that he seldom 

 missed a day from the twelfth of August to the first of 

 February, except when he was hunting. He had Mr. 

 Farquharson's moors in Aberdeenshire for many years, 

 where he frequently killed a hundred brace of grouse 

 in one day ; and before he had the misfortune to break 

 his thigh, many an antlered monarch of the forest had 

 fallen to his rifle. It was on this very ground that 

 the late Prince Consort amused himself with deer 

 stalking. 



After being a few years at Weeting, in Norfolk, he 

 bought the estates of Mr. Merest at Linford, Cranwich 

 and Mundford, and that of Mr. Moseley at Tofts, 

 adjoining to each other, and immediately bounded 

 by those of Mr. Angerstein, at Weeting, on one side, and 

 those of Mr. Baring, at Buckenham, on the other so 

 that nothing could be better adapted for the breeding 

 and preservation of game, in which a reference to his 

 game books would show him to have been eminently 

 successful." 



There is one statement in that eulogistic notice of 

 Sir Richard Sutton to which I must take exception. 

 And that is that he never had an equal in the two 

 pursuits of hunting and shooting. Lord Stamford, 

 his successor in the mastership of the Quorn, I should 

 feel inclined to rank in quite the same class as Sir 

 Richard, both as a Master of Hounds and a game-shot, 

 whilst George Osbaldeston, the famous " Old Squire," 

 was unquestionably the equal if not the superior of 

 his quondam pupil in both sports. No feat of Sir 

 Richard Sutton's that I have ever heard of can compare 



