66 Some sportsmen of yore. 



Ingleborough, M.P. for South Durham, stopped at Croft, and 

 would go thirty-five miles to meet Mr. Milbank, and Colonel 

 Beckwith, of Silksworth, a very good rider, who always hunted 

 five or six days a week if he could, but was rather more of a 

 Lambton man ; Colonel Tower, of Elemor, master of the 

 Durham country, a nice, affable old gentleman, and his son, 

 Harry Baker, a first-rate man to hounds ; Tom Masterman, of 

 Little Danby, near Northallerton, the oldest sportsman in the 

 hunt, whom no man could beat when on his grey horse ; Billy 

 Clark, of Killerby, who thought nought of a twenty-mile ride 

 in the dark ; Mr. G. W. Sutton, of Elton Hall, the author of 

 'Ballynamonaora,' or 'The Hounds of Ralph Lambton for me,' 

 and many other poetical effusions ; Tom Waldy, of Eggles- 

 cliffe, and his son. Captain Edward Waldy ; and Mr. Marshall 

 Fowler, of Preston Hall. The late Harry Faber, of Stockton, 

 was a regular bruiser, and very fond of jumping. Being half- 

 blind, he rode in spectacles, and stuck to hounds like a leech ; 

 with him his two sons ; Mr. Simon Scrope, of Danby Hall, 

 who was about their best man in the field ; and Captain 

 Heneage Wynne, of the 68th Regiment, who was killed at 

 Inkerman : he was a nephew of the late Colonel Hildyard, and 

 very fond of fox-hunting when on leave. His death was greatly 

 deplored by all who knew him. Mr. George Marwood ; Mr. 

 James Cookson, of Neasham Hall, was a very hard rider, and 

 his brother, Captain W. Cookson, late of the nth Regiment, 

 a most amusing man. Then, there was Major Lowe, of Yarm, 

 for a season or two ; and Mr. George Stonehouse, who was 

 killed by a fall from his horse near Stockton ; Admiral Watt, 

 who was a very eccentric character ; Mr. David Laird, who 

 came from Scotland to Middleton-St. -George, and was very 

 well turned out ; and Mr. Blackett, of Sockburn, ' with his 

 mare in a fidget, himself in a funk,' an excellent preserver of 



