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bidding them, on a public occasion, one of 

 those friendly welcomes he so happily de- 

 lighted in. His health had been on the 

 decline for some time, and it was too evident 

 that his exertions on the day of the sale 

 considerably overpowered him. The nature 

 of his complaint daily reducing his strength, 

 he departed this life on the 7th of Septem- 

 ber 1863. 



Mr Cradock and his family have been 

 associated with the preservation of the foxes 

 in the Quorn country very many years. A 

 great proportion of the gorse coverts for 

 which this hunt is famous, have been from 

 time immemorial rented by the masters of 

 hounds or others interested in the sport. 

 The management of them, and the preser- 

 vation of the foxes in the days of Mr Mey- 

 nell, and for a long period subsequently, was 

 sedulously presided over by Mr Cradock's 

 father ; after that by his brother, till about 

 the time when Mr Greene followed Mr 

 Hodgson, upon which the gentleman whose 

 loss is so much deplored succeeded to those 

 ostensible duties. It is thus manifest how 



