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On Mr Hodorson's retirement a committee 

 took the affairs In hand, with Mr Greene, 

 of Rollestone, at the head ; and it is worthy 

 of remark that Mr Greene, up to that 

 period, was the only county gentleman 

 who had ever been placed in a similar 

 position. His great popularity and influ- 

 ence maintained for Leicestershire its 

 long-accustomed celebrity. Approaching 

 more recent dates, in 1847, Sir Richard 

 Sutton, preferring this country to the 

 Cottesmore, Mr Greene and the committee 

 resigned In his favour. With a splendid 

 pack of hounds, which he had been many 

 years in bringing to perfection, making the 

 old house his place of abode, the quondam 

 glories of Ouorn were thoroughly restored, 

 and, in 1851, the Donnington country be- 

 coming vacant, was again united. No 

 master of hounds of past or present days 

 could exceed Sir Richard Sutton in that 

 unceasing devotion to the " noble science," 

 which is indispensable with the perfection 

 of sport. All his instructions, too, were 

 ably carried out by his huntsman, Tom 



